January 27th, 2019

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day:


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                                  "Our future is in the rear-view mirror and gaining on us."


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Today is the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army.  1.1 million people, primarily Jewish, were gassed and incinerated by the Nazis in the prison camp. 
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Approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered in Nazi concentration camps in efficient factory-precision during World War ll, between 1939 and 1945.

Before the Holocaust, the pre-war Jewish population (and as early as 1933) in Europe was approximately 9.5 million.  By 2012, Europe's Jewish population was approximately 1.4 to 1.6 million. 

The world's Jewish population in 2016 was approximately 14.2 million people.  About half of the world's surviving Jews live in the U.S. 


- Sources: BBC/ NerLeElef-Judaism Online/ Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum web site/ Wikipedia/ Jewish Virtual Museum.

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The second largest number of prisoner deaths/murders committed by the Nazis were inflicted by starvation, disease, executions: 
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     …“at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody,” as part of the overall 5.7 million POW deaths in WW-2 in the Pacific, the European, African, and other theaters.  “This figure represents a total of 57% of all Soviet POWs" that were imprisoned in Nazi camps.  
    - Wikipedia




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