reports on all deaths in the industrial complex. The following figures should be of interest: The camp closed in January of 1945. Th
During the WW2 only some 20 K Jews entered US and slighlty more entered Palestine.
Before the Holocaust there were about 17 million Jews (9 million Jews in Europe and USSR, 6 million Jews in Americas and 2 million in Asia and Africa).
After the Holocaust 11 million Jews remained (3 million Jews in Europe and USSR, 6 million Jews in Americas and 2 million in Asia and Africa).
Since then most of the 5 mln Europe and Asia and Africa Jews migrated to Israel + natural growth of 2-3 million. America Jewish population remained about the same.
What about those who entered countries illegally under fake names and stuff? some even in containers or unregistered ferries? What about those who escaped and those who helped them escape moved? What about those who the Ottoman empire helped cross borders? Why no one read their records?
Did you count these:
Feng-Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat who saved approximately
2,000 Jews during the early years of World War II. Ho was consul-general of the Chinese embassy in Vienna during the Austrian annexation. After the “Kristallnacht” in 1938, the situation for the almost 200,000 Austrian Jews got rapidly more difficult, but in order to leave the country they had to provide proof of emigration, usually a visa from a foreign nation or a valid boat ticket. This, however, was difficult and the Evian Conference, in 1938, where 32 countries had failed to take a stand against Nazi Germany, made this even more complicated. Acting against orders of his superior, Ho, for humanitarian reasons, started to issue visas to Shanghai. He continued to issue these visas until he was ordered to return to China in May 1940. After the war, Ho settled in San Francisco where he died in 1997. He was made ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ in 2001 for his efforts to save thousands of Austrian Jews.
Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker. During World War II, she was a member of the Polish Underground and the ?egota Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw. She helped save
2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them with false documents and sheltering them in individual and group children’s homes outside the ghetto.....
In 1965 she was made ‘Righteous Among the Nations’, and died in 2008.
Hugh O’Flaherty was an Irish Catholic priest who saved about
4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in Rome during World War II.
Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian who helped save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them fake passports to travel to neutral countries. Despite fighting alongside Franco in the Spanish Civil War, Perlasca became disillusioned with Fascism and escaped from Italy to the Spanish embassy in Budapest in 1944, where he became a Spanish citizen on account of his war experience. While there he worked with Spanish diplomat Angel Sanz Briz in creating fake passports to smuggle Jews out of the country. It is estimated he saved over
5,000 Jews from the Holocaust.After the war, he returned to Italy where he lived in obscurity until he was contacted in 1987 by a group of Hungarian Jews he had rescued, and his remarkable story became public. He died in 1992.
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat, serving as Vice Consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. Soon after the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, he helped an estimated
6,000 Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from Poland or residents of Lithuania....Sugihara returned to Japan where he lived in obscurity until he was made ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by Israel in 1985. He died the following year.
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz was a German member of the Nazi party who worked as a special envoy to Nazi occupied Denmark..... Hedtoft warned senior rabbis in the country, and in the following two months, over
6,000 Jews were ferried secretly to Sweden in boats.....He died in 1973. Due to his actions, it is estimated that around 99% of Denmark’s Jews survived the Holocaust.
Frank Foley was a British secret service agent estimated to have saved
10,000 Jews from the Holocaust. ....Sometimes he went further, going into internment camps to get Jews out, hiding them in his home, and helping them get forged passports. He died in 1958.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was a Portuguese Diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. Between the June 16 and June 23 1940, he frantically issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror,
12,000 of whom were Jews.
Dimitar Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice during World War II. He rebelled against the pro-Nazi cabinet and prevented the deportation of Bulgaria’s
48,000 Jews......It was not until 1973 when he was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations. He died the same year.
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Between July and December of 1944 he issued fake passports and housed several thousand Jews, saving an estimated
100,000 people from the Nazis....
On April 28, 1935, four years before the War even started, Pacelli (soon to become Pope Pius XII) gave a speech ......Thousands of Jews — the figures run from
4,000 to 7,000 — were hidden, fed, clothed, and bedded in the 180 known places of refuge in Vatican City, churches and basilicas, Church administrative buildings, and parish houses. Unknown numbers of Jews were sheltered in Castel Gandolfo, the site of the Pope’s summer residence, private homes, hospitals, and nursing institutions; and the Pope took personal responsibility for the care of the children of Jews deported from Italy.”
10 People Who Saved Jews During World War Two - Listverse
So these are 10 people honoured and they together saved some 1 M Jews! These are on record not mentioning the others who were normal families!