A new estimate puts the number of Jewish Holocaust survivors in the United States at 38,400 — down from 50,000 two years ago and 109,900 in 2003.
A report released Jan. 23 by the Claims Conference, the organization that negotiates with Germany for reparations, estimated that — as of August 2023 — there were 245,000 Jewish survivors worldwide, nearly two-thirds fewer than 20 years ago.
The Global Demographic Report on Jewish Holocaust Survivors was released in advance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. The Claims Conference acknowledges that its estimate may be toward the low end of a range, as some survivors choose not to be identified and others may not consider themselves to be survivors.
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According to the report, the U.S. accounted for 15.7 percent of the survivor population. Spread across more than 90 countries, 48.8 percent lived in Israel, 18.1 percent in North America, 17.5 percent in Western Europe, 11.8 percent in countries of the former Soviet Union, 2.5 percent in Eastern Europe, and the remainder in Oceania, South America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.
In raw numbers, the U.S. trailed only Israel, home to 119,000 Jewish survivors. Of those in the U.S., 90 percent lived in 10 states, led by nearly 40 percent in New York, followed by California with 16 percent. In descending order, the others were Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, and Michigan.
A report released Jan. 23 by the Claims Conference, the organization that negotiates reparations with Germany, estimated that, as of August 2023, there were 245,000 Jewish survivors worldwide — nearly two-thirds fewer than in 2003.
A fraction live in Georgia. Jewish Family & Career Services Atlanta estimates that more than 230 survivors live in the state, mostly in the Atlanta area, though there may be others not known to the agency. Its database lists…
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