Chet Mentz <cewkow@xtalwind.net> wrote on Monday, March 31: >I have hear conflicting reports of how many people were put to death by >the gasses as in Buchenwald, Auslitz, etc. > I know that there were may other groups, as Gypsies, Colored people, >and Polish too, as well as political dissidents too. > What is closest to the truth on the actual number of people that were >put to death ? Also, what was the actual number of Jewish people of that >total ? For many years the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust had usually been cited as 6 million, with the total of Jews and other groups murdered estimated at 12 million. Recent research out of Britain claims that the actual number of Jews who died was closer to 7 million, based upon new estimates of the number of Jews in Europe before 1939. (This was reported in the New York Times, I believe.) While I find this information intellictually interesting, it does not change my personal situation. I have still lost the same number of grandparents, aunts, uncles and first cousins as well as innumerable distant relatives and family friends. My mother still has the number tatooed on her arm that she got as a slave laborer in Auschwitz. And the horror of 7 million Jews dead as opposed to 6 million (or 13 million people vs. 12) is no different, since I will always have trouble imagining the magnitude of Nazi genocide. If you would like to find out more, I suggest you go to: http://www.nizkor.org/ http://remember.org/ or check out the newsgroup devoted to this subject: soc.culture.jewish.holocaust I have to ask though, and with all due respect, why did you post this question here? Isn't it a tad off-topic for this group? Rhonda Wenner RCMWenner@aol.com