How many people survived the Holocaust

According to the official website for the United States Holocaust memorial museum, the Jewish population of Europe in 1950 numbered ~3.5 million.
 
According to the official website for the United States Holocaust memorial museum, the Jewish population of Europe in 1950 numbered ~3.5 million.
Bear in mind that a great number of Jews left Europe during that period and there were Jews outside of the Nazi sphere of conquest, so the 3.5 million number may not give a fair idea as to the survivors of the Holocaust. There were also homosexuals, political dissidents, and assorted "undesirables" the Nazis chose to murder in the Holocaust. Finding figures on them may be difficult. On the whole, I'd suggest trying to find figures on the number of people found in each death camp after their liberation.
 
So basically I want to know the answer to the tin. Does anyone know?

About 2.5 billion people who were alive in August 1939 were still alive in May 1945.

But I don't suppose you would consider that a useful answer to your question.

I guess the precise question would be: how many people who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany and its satellites in 1939 to 1945 were not murdered?

Or perhaps you want to know: how many Jews who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany and its satellites in 1939 to 1945 were not murdered?

However, this excludes from "the Holocaust" millions of murders perpetrated by Germany against Roma, Soviet PoWs, Poles, and other categories. But "the Holocaust" usually refers only to the mass murder of Jews.

So another limit might be "Jews in the custody of Germany or those satellites which also murdered Jews". Would a Jew who evaded German custody count as a survivor? For instance, a Soviet Jew who hid out in the woods during the German occupation of his district. Or a man my late neighbor Ruth once knew in Norway: her employer, a Jewish dentist, who fled to Sweden with his family the day after the German invasion.

Without such a definition, the question cannot be answered.

How about this? How many Jews were prisoners of the Germans on V-E Day, i.e. had not been killed yet?
 
Well I'm interested in not just the Jewish number, but the number of Soviet prisoners and Rom prisoners and so on.

And the V-E prisoner number would be helpful I guess, because though camps were liberated I'm pretty sure the Allies didn't move any of the prisoners until after the war.
 
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