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Jewish Persecution: Workshop 5J

Adolf Hitler

The Holocaust

The Jews were persecuted throughout the ages. They were treated like outcasts. One of the most well known tragedies is the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a time where the Naziswere collecting many Jews and other religious groups and killing them.

A man named Adolph Hitler ran the Nazis. In the holocaust, about six million Jews died. Before the Holocaust there were 15.3 million Jews in the world. In 1939 there were over 9.5 million Jews in Europe.

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After this horrible tragedy there were only 3.5 million left in Europe. Now that the Holocaust is over, there are over 5.6 million Jews alone in the United States, over 3.9 million in Israel, and over 0.9 million in Russia.
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