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In which of the Nazi occupied countries during World War II was the largest percentage of the Jewish population sent to the Nazi death camps?
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#96705. Asked by Flem-ish. (Jun 17 08 3:52 AM)
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BRY2K

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Poland.
In total 85 percent of the Jewish population in Poland died -- some 2.8 million people. Only an estimated 11 percent of Jewish children who were alive in 1933 survived the Holocaust.
An estimated 5.5 million other victims of Nazi atrocities --labelled "enemies of the German state" -- included up to half a million Gypsies, an estimated 10,000-15,000 homosexuals and 3 million non-Jewish Poles. Catholic and Protestant clergy also were sent to concentration camps as well as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland was the largest and at least 1.1 million Jews were killed there before its liberation by the Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945.
http://isurvived.org/AUSCHWITZ_TheCamp.html
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Arpeggionist

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Poland lost the greatest number of Jews by far, but the highest percentage lost was from Latvia, which had once been a center of antihassidic Jewish communities and was left with only a handfull of Jews after the war.
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