By Ofri Ilani: How many Jews would there be if not for the Holocaust?
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Title:I think the professor has underestimated
Name:Jackie
City: State: Florida
Let us look more closely at the professor`s figures. About one-third of the world`s Jewish poopulation was killed during the Shoah, most of them the highly Orthodox community of Poland amd eastern Europe as well as the highly assimilated Jewish people who lived in Germany and Austria. Presently most of the Orthodox families in the US have at least four children. At present, the world`s Jewish population is about what it was prior to the Shoah. Assuming a growth rate of 10 per cent annually, less the trends toward conversion, I would think the professor`s figures are vastly underestimated. Don`t forget that over a million of the Jews killed were children too young to work in the labour camps, aa totally lost generation!!