How many people were murdered in the Holocaust?
While it is impossible to ascertain the exact number of victims, statistics indicate that the total number of Jews murdered was over 5,830,000. Six million Jewish victims is the round figure accepted by most authorities. There were many millions of additional victims, including Communists, trade unionists, Socialists, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), Jehova’s Witnesses, Soviet citizens, Soviet prisoners of war, and homosexuals.
