Impact of the Holocaust

Interesting reading of a Wikipedia article comparing the Jewish population in 1900 and 2005. During that time global population increased from 1.65 billion to 6.00 billion or by 264%.

The Jewish population in 1900 was 11.2 million. At 264% increase it would have been 29.5 million. Instead it is 14.6 million.

More striking is looking on a country basis how even today – 60 years after WWII, the Jewish populations are a fraction of what they were. Examples:

• Algeria – from 51,000 to 100
• Austria/Hungary/Poland – from 3.4 million to 93,000
• Germany – from 586,000 to 107,000
• Netherlands – from 104,000 to 33,000
• Morocco – from 110,000 to 5,000
• Romania – from 269,000 to 6,000
• Russia – from 3.9 million to 717,000

We shall never forget.