The Associated Press: Vatican to bishop: Recant Holocaust denial before excommunication fully lifted
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Title:The WiesenthalCenter
Name:Dav
City: State:
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