Survivor Numbers

April 2023 is the 80^th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as well as Israel’s Annual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day.)

How many Holocaust Survivors are still alive?

The United States Holocaust Museum (USHMM) gives a broader definition revealing that, “The Museum honors as a survivor any person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and/or political policies of the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945”.

As of 2023, about 400,000 Jews who survived the Ghettos, the Labor Camps, the Concentration Camps, the Death Camps, etc. or fled the Nazis and their Collaborators are alive.

100,000 Survivors live in Israel.

100,000 Survivors live in the United States.

The remaining 200,000 Survivors are spread throughout the world (including Germany and war-torn Ukraine.)

World War 2 and the Holocaust ended 78 years ago, but the traumas experienced by the Men and Women Survivors (Starvation, Torture, Medical Experiments, Death Marches, etc.) continue to this day.

The vast majority of Holocaust Survivors live below the Poverty Line. It is like that regardless of if they live in Israel, the US or elsewhere and whether they receive any Compensation from Germany.