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Nazi documentation

The use of Nazi documentation, such as transport lists and camp registers, to estimate the number of Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust.

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How were Holocaust death counts for Jewish communities in Eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Belarus) determined?

Holocaust death counts for Jewish communities in Eastern Europe were established through a synthesis of surviving Nazi documentation, prewar and postwar demographic comparisons, surviving camp and Ein...

Jan 29, 2026

How did postwar demographic methods produce the six‑million estimate of Jewish victims?

Postwar estimates that roughly Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust rest on a convergence of methods: comparisons of prewar and postwar population counts, surviving of deportations and killing...