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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]
During the World War II period the American Jewish community was bitterly and deeply divided, and was unable to form a common front. Most Eastern European Jews favored Zionism, which saw a return to their homeland as the only solution; this had the effect of diverting attention from the horrors in Nazi Germany.
The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust. [4] Estimates of the number of victims vary from 300 to 1,600, including women, children, and elderly, many of whom were locked in a barn and burned alive. [5]
English: Piechart showing distribution of Holocaust deaths during World War II, 1939-1945. Please note that: 1. Definitions of the Holocaust vary; some include only Jewish victims, and this piechart includes other victims of Nazi persecution. 2. All figures of the Holocaust are estimates. 3. The pieces colored in light blue nuances are Jewish ...
The JWB (Jewish Welfare Board) Jewish Chaplains Council was founded in 1917 as the Chaplains' Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board. It is an agency of the Jewish Community Center (JCC) association, and serves as the endorsing body for Jewish military chaplains who serve in the US Armed Forces and VA chaplaincy services.
Judenrat in the town of Szydłowiec in occupied Poland, where the Jewish population was in the majority before the Holocaust A Judenrat [ a ] ( German: [ˈjuːdn̩ˌʁaːt] , lit. ' Jewish council ' ) was an administrative body established in German-occupied Europe during World War II which purported to represent a Jewish community in dealings ...
The Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE) had catastrophic effects on the Jewish population in Judaea, resulting in massive loss of life, extensive forced displacements, and widespread enslavement, which left central Judea in a state of desolation. [20] Some scholars describe the Roman suppression of the revolt as constituting an act of genocide.