The Nazis killed almost six million Jews; "only a few hundred thousand survived the ghettos and camps of Nazi-dominated Europe." From the beginning, survival was a matter of pure chance; the Jews did not control their own fate. Those caught in the machine of destruction-roundups and deportations-could do nothing to alter their fate. At that point, survival depended on two factors: luck and the ability to do hard labor.
a few hundred thousand survivor are still alive in Israel and worldwide 7-800000 |
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