How many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust?

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Antisemitism demonstration in Paris — antisemitism Demonstrators protesting antisemitism during a silent march in Paris. The march commemorated Mireille Knoll, a Jewish woman who had survived the Holocaust and was murdered in her home on March 23, 2018, in what authorities called a hate crime.

During the Holocaust, the Nazi regime and its collaborators systematically murdered approximately 6 million Jewish men, women, and children.12

This state-sponsored genocide, which the Nazis referred to as the "final solution to the Jewish question," was driven by a virulent antisemitism that sought the total eradication of the Jewish people. The victims were killed through various methods, including mass shootings by mobile killing units, starvation, forced labor, and industrial-scale gassing in extermination camps. By the end of World War II, this campaign had resulted in the death of roughly two-thirds of the Jewish population that had been living in Europe.13