The Holocaust and Its Death Camps

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The Human costs of World War II

An estimated 55 million people died in World War II

Only 17 million were soldiers; the rest were civilians

Approximately 500,000 gypsies*-One third of their population-were murdered by the Nazi's.

Eleven million people were murdered in the Nazi death camps.

Over six million of Europe's 8.6 million Jews were murdered between 1933 and 1945.

Of Poland's prewar Jewish population of 3.5 million, only ten percent survived.

*The correct name for these people is Roma or Sinti. Hitler Persecuted them because they were a darkskinned ethnic Minority he considered inferior.