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JewishGen

International electronic resource for Jewish genealogy

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Dec 15, 2025
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How many Jewish survivors were there after WWII and how were survivor registries created?

Today’s surviving Jewish Holocaust population is commonly reported as just over 220,000 people worldwide, a figure cited by the Claims Conference and media outlets in 2025 . Survivor registries grew f...

Dec 15, 2025
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What archival records contribute to the 6 million Holocaust death estimate?

Archival records supporting the commonly cited figure of about six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust come from multiple, independent documentary streams: captured Nazi paperwork (including Wannse...

Nov 23, 2025
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What primary sources and archival records do researchers use to determine the number of Jewish victims?

Researchers determining how many Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust rely on vast, overlapping archival collections: institutional databases (Yad Vashem’s Central Database, USHMM’s Holocaust ...

Oct 16, 2025

What was the total number of Jewish deaths during the Holocaust?

The best-established total for Jewish deaths in the Holocaust is , a figure repeatedly cited by major Holocaust memorial institutions and widely used in commemorations and scholarship . Contemporary r...

Jan 18, 2026

Which archives, transport lists, or camp records corroborate the 217,000 figure and how reliable are they?

The short answer is: none of the provided sources directly corroborate a standalone "217,000" total as an authoritative, aggregated figure; archival evidence that could feed such a number exists in th...

Dec 5, 2025

Israeli genealogy linked to Turks

Israeli genealogical records and projects increasingly include Ottoman- and Turkey-era materials that link many Israeli families to ancestors in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey; the Israel Geneal...