Number Of Survivors

I have been asked how many Holocaust Survivors are still alive today. I worked at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and wrote a Former Co-Worker who is a Researcher and she sent me the following:

The United States Holocaust Museum (USHMM) gives a definition of what a Holocaust Survivor is 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 January 2022, about 400,000 Jews who survived or fled the Nazis and their Collaborators are alive around the world – as revealed by the Claims Conference, a body that sends the Survivors compensation every year, mostly from the German Government.

There are 165,800 Holocaust Survivors living in Israel (15,324 Survivors died in Israel in 2021.)

There are around 100,000 Holocaust Survivors living in the United States.

There are 10,000 Holocaust Survivors living in Ukraine (prior to the February 2022 Russian War.) 96 year old Boris Romanchenko who survived the camps: Buchenwald, Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen was killed by the Russians on March 21, 2022.

The average age of Survivors is now 85. Most have physical and mental issues from the traumas they suffered during the Holocaust.

More than half of all Holocaust Survivors around the world live below the Poverty Line.

25% of Holocaust Survivors living in Israel live below the Poverty Line.

One Third of Holocaust Survivors living in the United States live below the Poverty Line.