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In eastern and south-eastern Europe, most of Bulgaria's Jews survived the war, [16] as well as 60% of Jews in Romania [17] and nearly 30% of the Jewish population in Hungary. [18] Two-thirds survived in the Soviet Union. [19] Bohemia, Slovakia and Yugoslavia lost about 80% of their Jewish populations. [15]
The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler's defeat in 1945.
In Rome, some 4,000 Italian Jews and escaped prisoners of war avoided deportation, many of them hidden in safe houses or evacuated from Italy by a resistance group organized by the Irish-born priest and Vatican official Hugh O'Flaherty. Msgr. O'Flaherty used his political connections to help secure sanctuary for dispossessed Jews. [132]
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries, a new report revealed Tuesday. Nearly half of them, or 49%, are living in Israel ...
Despite many deaths, as many as 200,000 Jews survived the war inside the concentration camps. [321] Although most Holocaust victims were never imprisoned in a concentration camp, the image of these camps is a popular symbol of the Holocaust. [322] Including the Soviet prisoners of war, 13 million people were brought to Germany for forced labor ...
Oskar Schindler (second from right) with a group of Jews he rescued during the Holocaust.The photo was taken in 1946, a year after World War II ended.. The Schindlerjuden, literally translated from German as "Schindler Jews", were a group of roughly 1,200 Jews saved by Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust.
Poland had the largest Jewish population in Europe before World War II. There were 3,500,000 Jews living in the Second Republic, about 10% of the general population. Between the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and the end of World War II, over 90% of Polish Jewry perished. [156]
Curt Lowens (17 November 1925 – 8 May 2017), German-Jewish actor and resistant, survived. Arnošt Lustig (21 December 1926 – 26 February 2011), Czechoslovak and later Czech Jewish writer and novelist, the Holocaust is his lifelong theme, survived. Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019), Croatian-American film producer. [77]