Holocaust Reality

Though this is the week that we commemorate Yom Hashoa, it's hard to really have any sense of proportion when it comes to remembering the massive tragedy that was the Holocaust. Krum points us to something that really brings the loss home (from the American Jewish Committee Year Book for 1946-1947):

Estimates of the world Jewish population have been assembled by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (except for the United States and Canada) and are probably the most authentic available at the present time. The figures reveal that the total Jewish population of the world has decreased by one-third, from about 16,600,000 in 1939, to about 11,000,000 in 1946, as a result of the annihilation by the Nazis of over five and a half million European Jews.

Sobering.