Cultural Changes

Experts say that approximately 32 million Jews would inhabit the world today if the genocide had never occurred.

There would be more hebrew speaking people in Germany and Poland.

Countries would have a higher percentage of judaism compared to atheism.

September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

December 7, 1941: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day.

December 11, 1941: Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.

September 12, 1942: Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.

April 19, 1943: Warsaw ghetto uprising begins

January 18, 1945: Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.

January 27, 1945: Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.

April 30, 1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide

May 7, 1945: Germany surrenders to the western Allies.

May 9, 1945: Germany surrenders to the Soviets.

The most common symbol of Jewish Identity