Dr. Cornel West on history: what the evidence says · JRE #1325
SUBJECT: HISTORY
The short answer
West states that one out of three Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Historical scholarship consistently puts the death toll at approximately six million Jews out of a pre-war European Jewish population of roughly 9-9.7 million, meaning about two out of three European Jews, not one out of three, were killed.
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It's very much like our Jewish brothers and sisters felt in 1973. They'd already undergone a genocidal attack, one out of three precious Jews killed.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
West stated that "one out of three" Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Historical scholarship consistently puts the death toll at approximately six million Jews out of a pre-war European Jewish population of roughly 9-9.7 million, meaning about two out of three European Jews, not one out of three, were killed. This also represented roughly one-third of the worldwide Jewish population at the time, which may be the source of confusion between the "one-third" and "two-thirds" figures. University Holocaust-studies research guides (Rowan University, Florida Atlantic University) consistently cite the two-thirds-of-European-Jewry figure. The claim understates the proportion of European Jews killed by roughly half.