The Number of Jews Killed During the Holocaust by Country

Memorial at Majdanek Concentration Camp, Poland.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered an estimated six million Jews. These were Jews from across Europe, who spoke different languages and had different cultures. Some of them were wealthy and some of them were poor. Some were assimilated and some were Orthodox. What they did have in common was that all of them had at least one Jewish grandparent, which was how the Nazis defined who was Jewish.

These Jews were forced out of their homes, crowded into ghettos, and then deported to either a concentration or a death camp. Most died of either starvation, disease, overwork, shooting, or gas and then their bodies were either dumped into a mass grave or cremated.

Because of the vast numbers of Jews murdered, no one is absolutely sure how many died in each camp, but there are decent estimates of deaths by camp. The same is true about estimates per country. 

The Chart of Jews Killed, by Country

The following chart shows the estimated number of Jews killed during the Holocaust by country. Notice that Poland by far lost the largest number (three million), with Russia having lost the second most (one million). The third highest losses were from Hungary (550,000).

Notice also that despite the smaller numbers in Slovakia and Greece, for example, they still lost an estimated 80% and 87% respectively of their pre-war Jewish populations.

The totals for all countries show that an estimated 58% of all Jews in Europe were killed during the Holocaust.

Never before had their been such a large-scale, systematic genocide as that conducted by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Please consider the below figures as estimates.

Country	Pre-war Jewish Population	Estimated Murdered
Austria	185,000	50,000
Belgium	66,000	25,000
Bohemia/Moravia	118,000	78,000
Bulgaria	50,000	0
Denmark	8,000	60
Estonia	4,500	2,000
Finland	2,000	7
France	350,000	77,000
Germany	565,000	142,000
Greece	75,000	65,000
Hungary	825,000	550,000
Italy	44,500	7,500
Latvia	91,500	70,000
Lithuania	168,000	140,000
Luxembourg	3,500	1,000
Netherlands	140,000	100,000
Norway	1,700	762
Poland	3,300,000	3,000,000
Romania	609,000	270,000
Slovakia	89,000	71,000
Soviet Union	3,020,000	1,000,000
Yugoslavia	78,000	60,000
Total:	9,793,700	5,709,329

* For additional estimates see:

Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 (New York: Bantam Books, 1986) 403.

Abraham Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit, History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994) 266.

Israel Gutman (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1990) 1799.

Raul Hilberg, Destruction of European Jews (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1985) 1220.