ROOTS OF ISRAEL AND EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM PART 3/4

PART THREE – TROOTS OF ISRAEL - DIDIER BERTIN – 30 MARCH 2010

IX-HOLOCAUST and Palestine partition

It is useful to bear in mind the figures of the Holocaust, to understand the strength of anti-Semitism at its peak. The Holocaust is unique regarding the high extermination performance and as a result nearly 63% of European Jews perished. It seems that it was unfortunately necessary to reach this climax to reach a decision regarding the partition of Palestine despite the effort of Great Britain to make it impossible.
In 9 of the 20 European countries concerned by Holocaust, the extermination was included between 69% and 96% of the Jewish population. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe i.e. 10 countries out 20, counted 5 400 000 victims that is to say 90% of the six millions victims. In 1939, 84% of Europe's Jewish population lived in Central and Eastern Europe. In many countries of Western Europe the victims were less numerous but represented a significant part of the Jewish population of each.