When the
Victims Died
rounded to the nearest 100,000
| through 1940 | under 100,000 |
| 1941 | 1,100,000 |
| 1942 | 2,700,000 |
| 1943 | 500,000 |
| 1944 | 600,000 |
| 1945 |
100,000 |
| Total | 5,100,000 |
How the
Victims Died
* = up
to † =
over
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DEATHS IN CAMPS |
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Major German death
camps: Treblinka Bełżec Sobibór Chełmno Majdanek Total of major German death camps |
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Minor German death camps (Poniatowa, Trawniki, Semlin); concentration camps (Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Dachau, Stutthof, and others); and labor and transit camps |
150,000 |
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Romanian camps (Golta complex and Bessarabian transit camps) |
100,000 |
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Croatian and other camps |
*50,000 |
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All deaths in camps |
*3,000,000 |
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DEATHS FROM OPEN-AIR SHOOTING |
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Einsatzgruppen, Higher SS and Police Leaders, Romanian and German Armies in mobile operations; shootings in Galicia during deportations; killings of prisoners of war and shootings in Serbia and elsewhere |
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All deaths from open-air shootings |
†1,300,000 |
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DEATHS FROM PRIVATION |
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Ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe |
† 600,000 |
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Theresienstadt and privation outside of ghettos |
100,000 |
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Transnistria colonies (Romanian and Soviet Jews) |
100,000 |
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All deaths from privation |
† 800,000 |
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TOTAL |
5,100,000 |
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Adapted from Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, rev. ed. (1985), III:1219-20. Hilberg's estimate of total deaths is one of the lowest responsible estimates; for other estimates, see the chart of "Estimated Losses by Country" on this website, from the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.