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Servicemen of the 20th Air Force stationed in Guam during World War II participate in a Rosh Hashanah service. Approximately 1.5 million Jews served in the regular Allied militaries during World War II. [10] Approximately 550,000 American Jews served in the various branches of the United States Armed Forces.
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
In Japanese-occupied China there was a more significant Jewish population, including White Russian refugees and Baghdadi Jews. [7] As Jewish persecution in Europe stepped up, an increasing number of refugees travelled to China by steamship or had transited through the Soviet Union and were hoping to move on to the United States.
Enlarged Jewish population includes the Jewish connected population and those who say they have Jewish background but not a Jewish parent, and all non-Jews living in households with Jews. Eligible Jewish population includes all those eligible for immigration to Israel under its Law of Return.
Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust. Alexander Sharon (2nd, revised ed.). Bergenfield, N.J.: Avotaynu. ISBN 1-886223-15-7. OCLC 488653492. Yad Vashem (1965). Blackbook of localities whose Jewish population was exterminated by the Nazis. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem. OCLC 48650158. Margulis, Ted ...
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Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia on a map of all camps in Yugoslavia in World War II.. The Holocaust saw the genocide of Jews, Serbs and Romani within the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH), a fascist puppet state that existed during World War II, led by the Ustaše regime, which ruled an occupied area of Yugoslavia including most of ...
The Korherr Report is a 16-page document on the progress of the Holocaust in German-controlled Europe. It was delivered to Heinrich Himmler on March 23, 1943, by the chief inspector of the statistical bureau of the SS and professional statistician Dr Richard Korherr under the title Die Endlösung der Judenfrage, in English the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. [1]