One of the many impacts of the Holocaust was the drop in population of Jewish people in Germany and around the world and how they demanded everything they lost. Around six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust, which means the total of civilians persecuted were about seven million (“Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution”). The population of Europe before WWII in 1933 was around 9.5 million people. This number dropped to 3.5 million by 1950. Many of the people that survived demanded everything they had lost. “The population shifts brought on by the Holocaust and by Jewish emigration were astounding” (“Jewish Population of Europe in 1945”). The Holocaust greatly impacted the population of Jewish people. …show more content…
There were many people who had nowhere to go. These people were called the displaced persons. There were 1.5 to 2 million displaced persons by the end of the war. A lot of Jewish agencies worked to help the displaced persons by providing them food and supplies (“Holocaust Timeline: Aftermath”) “The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided Holocaust survivors with food and clothing” (“The United States Holocaust Museum”). Many displaced Jewish persons were helped by agencies and given food, water, and clothing. This impacted people because many Jewish people left Germany and entered the United States and