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About 116 Danish Jews remained hidden in Denmark until the war's end, a few died of accidents or committed suicide, and a handful had special permission to stay. The casualties among Danish Jews during the Holocaust were among the lowest of the occupied countries of Europe. Yad Vashem records only 102 Jews from Denmark who were murdered in the ...
Today, between 80 and 90 percent of the Jews in Germany are Russian speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union. [97] [98] Many Israelis also move to Germany, particularly Berlin, for its relaxed atmosphere and low cost of living. Olim L'Berlin, a Facebook snowclone asking Israelis to emigrate to Berlin, gained notoriety in 2014. [99]
Ashkenazi Jews settled in Amsterdam as well but were generally poorer than the Sephardim and dependent of their charity. However, Amsterdam's prosperity faltered in the late seventeenth century, as did the fortunes and number of Sephardic Jews, while the Ashkenazi Jews' numbers continued to rise and have dominated the Netherlands ever since.
In Amsterdam, intermarried Jews had a 59% lower risk of dying than those who were not intermarried. [7] By September 1944, 98 percent of surviving German and Austrian Jews were in mixed marriages, according to official statistics. [1] [12] More than 90 percent of intermarried Jews from Greater Germany survived the war. [13]
By October 1, 1943, in less than three weeks, 7 thousand Jews from Denmark were transported to neutral Sweden by the Danish anti-Nazi underground. The Nazis managed to deport only 472 Danish Jews to concentration camps. [103] In Norway, they managed to save 930 of the approximately 1,800 Jews, also transporting them to Sweden. [104]
During the occupation period, 3 million Polish Jews were killed. This represented 90 percent of the pre-war population and half of all Jews killed in the Holocaust. [29] Additionally the Nazis ethnically cleansed another 1.8-2 million Poles, bringing Poland's Holocaust death toll to around 4.8-5 million people.
Jews had begun emigrating from Germany in 1933 once the Nazis came to power, and from Austria from 1938, after the Anschluss. By the time war began in Europe, approximately 282,000 Jews had left Germany, and 117,000 had left Austria. [23] Only 10% of Polish Jews survived the war. [22]
Overall, 1% were Germans rejected for military service and 1.5% were concentration camp prisoners the rest were prisoners of war and compulsory labourers from occupied countries. All were effectively treated as slaves and existed in the complete and arbitrary service of a ruthless totalitarian state. Many did not survive the work or the war. [30]