How many people survived the Holocaust during World War II?

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2,927,900 The term holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holókauston, meaning a " whole (holos) burnt (kaustos)" sacrificial offering to a god.[6] Its Latin form (holocaustum) was first used with specific reference to a massacre of Jews by the chroniclers Roger of Howden[7] and Richard of Devizes in the 1190s. For hundreds of years, the word holocaust was used in English to denote massive sacrifices and great slaughters or massacres. During World War II, the word was used to describe Nazi atrocities regardless of whether the victims were Jews or non-Jews. Since the 1960s, the term has come to be used by scholars and popular writers to refer exclusively to the genocide of Jews.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust The website lists the number of pre-war Jewish population in Europe and the number of post-war Jews by nation. The totals were 8,861,900 and 5,927,900. Subtraction gives us a number of 2,927,900. Sep 30 09, 8:34 AM