World to lose 90% of Holocaust survivors within next 15 years - projections

Jerusalem Post - 22/04
According to Vanishing Witnesses: An Urgent Analysis of the Declining Population of Holocaust, the global population of Holocaust survivors is expected to be around 21,300 by 2040.

The world will lose 70% of its Holocaust survivors in the next 10 years and 90% over the next 15 years, according to demographic projections by the group Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The data will be issued at a conference on Tuesday.

According to the report, Vanishing Witnesses: An Urgent Analysis of the Declining Population of Holocaust, the global population of Holocaust survivors is expected to be around 21,300 by 2040.

One of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Pinchas Gutter, said in a press release that it was sobe...
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