Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Hungarian Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
132 (1993) 134-143
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1933-1945
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Statistics
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
Estimates the population loss of Hungarian Jews during the war as 210,000, according to the present-day borders of Hungary. This figure includes those who were deported and perished, those murdered by the Arrow Cross, those who were conscripted for forced labor and were killed in the actions or who were imprisoned by the Soviets, and also those who were transported in 1945 by the Soviets from Nazi camps to Soviet ones. Contends that the number of Jewish survivors, therefore, must far exceed the number estimated by the Central Bureau of Statistics in 1946 (260,000). The discrepancy (ca. 100,000) may be attributed to the fact that many Jews feared to register as Jews after the war. Deals also with the problems of Holocaust survivors in Hungary between 1945-55.
Note:
Another version appeared as "Hungarian Jewry during the Holocaust and after liberation" in "World Congress of Jewish Studies" 11, B, vol.3 (1993) 243-250, and in "Papers in Jewish Demography 1993" (1997).
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