May 5, 2016
Today Was The March Of The Living
https://www.bustle.com/articles/159130-how-many-holocaust-survivors-are-alive-today-the-march-of-the-living-honors-its-victims
Among the thousands who attended the March of the Living were approximately 150 Holocaust survivors, many returning to Poland for the first time since their imprisonment. It's been over 70 years since the end of World War II, so all of the approximately 500,000 Holocaust survivors still alive are nearing their last years of life.
July 3, 2016
There Are Just 100,000 Holocaust Survivors Alive Today
https://time.com/4392413/elie-wiesel-holocaust-survivors-remaining/
There are about 100,000 Jews who were in camps, ghettos and in hiding under Nazi occupation who are still alive today, according to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, one of the few international organizations that tracks that type of data. The group, which negotiates with Germany’s government for payments to Holocaust victims and provides social services for survivors, said there were about 500,000 living survivors, including those who fled Nazi Germany, in 2014.
28 Apr 2017
Why remembering the Holocaust matters more than ever
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/remembering-holocaust-matters-170428122907845.html
This is just one gruesome snapshot of the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of about six million Jews during World War II. More than a million Jews like Riteman were hauled off to Auschwitz but only a handful made it out alive. At least 960,000 perished there.
According to The Blue Card, an international organisation that provides financial assistance and other resources to Holocaust survivors, there are an estimated 100,000 survivors still alive today, many of whom live in poverty.
January 20, 2018
Why this Holocaust survivor still wears his concentration camp uniform
https://nypost.com/2018/01/20/why-this-holocaust-survivor-still-wears-his-concentration-camp-uniform/
Jonny Daniels, founder of the Holocaust foundation From the Depths, estimates that, of the 500,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, only 100,000 are still alive today. Mosberg’s wife, now 90, is bedridden and still has nightmares about her time in the camps. Mosberg, too, is stuck there.
Jan 25th 2020 edition
Archivists are racing to identify every Jewish Holocaust victim
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/01/25/archivists-are-racing-to-identify-every-jewish-holocaust-victim
On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, just 400,000 Holocaust survivors are still alive.
Today, 400,000 Jews who survived or fled the Nazis and their collaborators are alive, reckons the Claims Conference, a body that sends them €480m ($564m) a year in compensation, mostly from the German government. By 2030 there could be fewer than 100,000 surviving Jews who lived in or near Axis territory during the war.
Updated: June 4, 2020 11:02 AM EDT | Originally published: May 29, 2020 12:00 PM EDT
Many Holocaust Survivors Are Struggling Amid the Pandemic. Here’s How Virtual Gatherings Are Helping
https://time.com/5842484/holocaust-survivors-coronavirus/
There are around 400,000 Holocaust survivors worldwide and about 85,000 in the United States alone, according to estimates by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). But the pandemic has already taken its toll on the group. Recent COVID-19 victims have included Kristallnacht survivor David Toren, 94, a lawyer who fought to recover Nazi-looted art, and Siberian labor camp survivor Joseph Feingold, 97, whose gift of a violin to a Bronx preteen inspired an Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary short.
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