The numbers are current to the end of 2018. World Jewry reached a population of 16.6 million right before the start of World War II in 1939. Israel’s 6.7 million Jews make up 45 percent of the ...
But only 45 percent knew that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. About 12 percent each thought that the number was lower or higher, and 29 percent did not know the answer. Among the teens ...