1938 The Times, November 22nd, 1938 - Mass emigration of Jews to Palestine for two years and the formation of a Jewish national assembly was advocated by Sir John Haslam, M.P., in a message which he sent to a public meeting at the Kingsway Hall last night held by the New Zionist Organization. The message stated that the problem now involved some 6,000,000 Jews. 1939 New York Times, January 15th, 1939, page 27 - Rabbi Silver wanted assistance to Jewish emigration safeguarded so that European governments would realize that "it is impossible to evacuate 6,000,000 Jews." 1939 The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, January 27th, 1939 - Only six million Jews remain at the moment safe. But they will have to carry the burden. 1939 Chaim Weizmann, The Palestine Post, February 14th, 1939 - The fate of six million people was in balance [....] 1939 The Jewish Criterion, February 17th, 1939, page 20 - The fate of six million people is in the balance. [....] They supported their stand with a declaration that Jews never needed unrestricted immigration to Palestine as much as at present, with 6,000,000 Jewish refugees seeking a haven. 1939 The Evening Independent, February 22nd, 1939, page 1 - 6,000,000 Helpless. [....] there are six million Jews in Europe today fighting desperately against intolerance and despair. For them the support of the united appeal is crucial. 1939 The Jewish Western Bulletin, March 3rd, 1939 - SIX MILLION JEWS OVERSEAS FACING PERSECUTION, DISCRIMINATION AND ECONOMIC RUIN [....] 1939 The Jewish Criterion, April 7th, 1939, page 4 - Not in Hitler's Hands, In Yours... The Fate Of Six Million European Jews 1939 The Jewish Criterion, April 7th, 1939, page 33 - [....] six million Jewish people who are in dire need today. 1939 The Jewish Criterion, April 14th, 1939, page 4 - Recent events in Central Europe have brought to 6,000,000 the total number of Jews in Central and Eastern European countries affected by anti-Semitic activities [....] 1939 The Jewish Criterion, April 14th, 1939, page 6 - [....] whether our 6,000,000 fellow countrymen will live or die [....] "More than a million refugees, starving, tortured, fear-dazed, have been dragged from their homes, separated from their families, expelled from their countries. Five million more, await with horror the moment this misery will strike them [....] 1939 The Jewish Criterion, April 21st, 1939, page 15 - [....] the distress and suffering of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe. [....] HAVE YOU DONE YOUR DUTY? THE UNITED JEWISH FUND NEEDS YOUR HELP FOR THE HELPLESS 6,000,000 IN EUROPE 1939 The Jewish Criterion, April 28th, 1939, page 3 - [....] 6,000,000 fellow Jews who are in distress today. 1939 The Jewish Criterion, May 5th, 1939, page 9 - PLIGHT OF 6,000,000 [....] The 6,000,000 European Jews [....] 1939 The Jewish Criterion, May 12th, 1939, page 7 - The year of 1939 is the year of the most critical struggle of 6,000,000 European Jews. 1939 Contemporary Jewish Record, Volume 2 July/August 1939 (Published by the American Jewish Committee) - [....] the coming ward would be the annihilation of the six million Jews in East and Central Europe. 1939 The Jewish Criterion, October 13th, 1939, page 2 - [....] the coming ward would be the annihilation of the six million Jews in East and Central Europe. 1939 The Southern Israelite, November 28th, 1939 - [....] the coming ward would be the annihilation of the six million Jews in East and Central Europe. 1940 The Southern Israelite, May 3rd, 1940 - "Almost six million Jews find themselves on the brink of starvation and extermination. Their only hope is the help which the Jews of America can extend to them. The success of the United Jewish Appeal will determine their fate. 1940 New York Times, June 25th, 1940, page 4 - Six million Jews in Europe are doomed to destruction, if the victory of Nazis should be final. [....] The chances for mass emigration and resettlement of European Jewry seems to be remote, and European Jews face the danger of physical annihilation. Even the 4,000,000 Jews under Soviet rule, although free from racial discrimination, are not safe in the event of a final Nazi victory. 1940 The Palestine Post, July 1st, 1940, page 6 - Nor must we despair that six million Jews will forever lose trace of their historic heritage. 1940 The Jewish Criterion, November 15th, 1940 - J.N.F. to Raise $6,000,000 for Palestine During Coming Year. [....] the Jewish National Fund of America voted to raise $6,000,000 for the holy land's war needs during the coming year. 1941 New York Times, October 2nd, 1941 - [....] as to avoid the likelihood of another holocaust. 1941 The Jewish Criterion, November 28th, 1941 - 6,000,000 Jews in Europe Look to America for Aid, Says Warburg. Fully six million Jews in Europe [....] 1942 The Jewish Spectator, Volume 7, 1942, page 53 - Now, too, the unspeakable tragedy of almost six million Jews under nazi domination is not considered sufficiently important to be discussed. 1942 The Palestine Post, November 1st, 1942 - The Chief Rabbi, who spoke on behalf of Empire Jewry and Jews of the United Nations, as well as of all six million Jews in Europe, said that the deliberate extinction of the whole house of Israel was being carried out by Hitler's sadists and quislings on a scale beyond compare even in the annals of Israel. 1942 New York Times, December 13th, 1942, page 21 - Rabbi Israel Goldstein in Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Eighty-eighth Street, near Broadway, declared: "Authenticated reports point to 2,000,000 Jews who have already been slain by all manner of satanic barbarism, and plans for the total extermination of all Jews upon whom the Nazis can lay their hands. The slaughter of a third of the Jewish population in Hitler's domain and the threatened slaughter of all is a holocaust without parallel. 1942 The Courier-Mail (Brisbane), December 19th, 1942 - GERMAN HORROR CRIMES; ALLIES PROMISE JUSTICE. Statements issued simultaneously in London, Washington and Moscow, told at German barbarity and of proof of the Nazi determination to exterminate Jews. [....] Hitler's decision to exterminate the Jews [....] It is estimated that there are between five and six million Jews in Occupied Europe [....] Nazi Slaughter House. [....] Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe. 1942 Barrier Miner (Australia), December 23rd, 1942 - Mr. Silverman suggested that Australia and Canada could each absorb 6,000,000 Jews. [....] MOST ARE DOOMED [....] The Jewish Congress declares that 2,000,000 Jews have been exterminated so far. 1942 The Massacre of a People: What the Democracies Can Do, 1943 - The following article is an except from "Let My People Go," a pamphlet written on Christmas Day, 1942, in London. [....] Of the six million Jews or so who were living at the outbreak of the war in what is at present Nazi-occupied Europe, a high proportion -between one and two million- have been deliberately murdered by the Nazis and their satellites. [....] Unless something effective is done, within a very few months these six million Jews will all be dead [....] 1943 American Zionist Emergency Council (from 1970 known as the American Zionist Movement) - "Palestine" - Volumes 1-5 (1943) - Jewish civilian casualties will be close to six million [....] 1943 Debates: House of Commons, official report, volume 5, Canada, 1943 - I should like to read a bit from a pamphlet entitled "Let My People Go," written by Victor Gollancz: Of the 6,000,000 Jews or so who were living at the outbreak of the war in what is at present nazi-occupied Europe, a high proportion -say between one and two million- have been deliberately murdered by the nazis and their satellites. [....] within a very few months these six million Jews will all be dead [....] 1943 Contemporary Jewish Record, Volume 6 1943 (Published by the American Jewish Committee) - Suddenly, during the summer of 1942, world public opinion was shocked out of its lethargy by the realization that the Nazis had decreed the complete extinction of six million Jews and that a third of the victims had already perished. 1943 The Canberra Times, January 25th, 1943 - [....] Jews are being subjected as part of Hitler's plan to exterminate six million Jews in occupied Europe. 1943 The (London) Times, January 25th, 1943 - They note further that the extermination already carried out is part of the Carrying into effect of Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe, which means in effect the extermination of some 6,000,000 persons in the territories over which Hitler's rule has been extended. 1943 Ben Hecht, Reader's Digest, February 1943, page 108 - Of these 6,000,000 Jews almost a third have already been massacred by Germans, Rumanians and Hungarians, and the most conservative of the scorekeepers estimate that before the war ends at least another third will have been done to death. 1943 New York Times, March 2nd, 1943 - [....] appalling is the fact that those who proclaim the Four Freedoms have so far done very little to secure even the freedom to live for 6,000,000 of their Jewish fellow men by readiness to rescue those who might still escape Nazi torture and butchery. 1943 The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia), May 15th, 1943 - [....] the possibility of the complete wiping out of six million Jews if something is not immediately done to secure a harbor of refuge. 1943 Toledo Blade, August 27th, 1943 - 3,000,000 Jews Left In Europe - 5,300,000 Reported To Have Perished. Europe's Jewish population has been reduced from 8,300,000 to 3,000,000 during the 10 years the Nazis have been in power, says the Institute of Jewish Affairs. 1944 The Palestine Post, January 23rd, 1944 - Only a handful of Polish Jews survived the extermination. They were now either with the partisans in the forests or living as Crypto-Jews. The death toll was six million, they declared. 1944 Rabbi Michael Dov Ber Weissmandl, May 15th, 1944 - And you - our brothers in Palestine, in all the countries of freedom, and you, ministers of all the kingdom - how do you keep silent in the face of this great murder? Silent while thousand on thousands, reaching now to six million Jews, were murdered. And silent now while tens of thousands are still being murdered and waiting to be murdered? Their destroyed hearts cry to you for help as they bewail your cruelty. Brutal you are and murderers too you are, because of the cold-bloodedness of the silence in which you watch. 1944 Rabbi Michael Dov Ber Weissmandel, May 31st, 1944 - [....] heads of government and radio must announce what was done to our people in the slaughter house of Belzec, Malkinia (Treblinka), Sobibor, and Auschwitz. Till now six times a million Jews from Europe and Russia have been destroyed. 1944 United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Convention Proceedings, September 25th-29th, 1944 - WHEREAS: History records no parallel to the bestial cruelties inflicted on the Jewish people of Europe by the Nazis and their satellites, whose coldly calculated program of extermination of all European Jews very nearly succeeded, almost six million Jews having been murdered in cold blood [....] 1944 Chicago Bar Record, October 1944 - There were then at least eight million virtually homeless Jews in Europe who acquired rights under this treaty. Happily, perhaps, for the Arabs, that number has been cut down by six million. 1944 Proceedings of the Annual Convention, Vols. 62-66. Illinois State Federation of Labor, October 2nd, 1944 - WHEREAS, Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazi henchmen during the time the Nazis kept Europe under their bloody heel [....] 1944 Youngstown Vindicator (Ohio), November 27th, 1944 - A five-volume "black book" containing a documentary record of the German massacre of approximately 6,000,000 European Jews is being prepared by the state publishing house. 1944 The Pittsburgh Press, November 28th, 1944, page 5 - Six Million Jews Listed Slaughtered. A five-volume "black book" containing a documentary record of the German massacre of approximately six million European Jews was being prepared today by the State publishing house. [....] The work was under the general editorship of Ilya Ehrenburg and the editorial board included Poet-Playwright Konstantin Simonov, Writer Vsevold [Vsevolod - Ivanov and Poetess Vera Imber. 1944 The Leader, November 28th, 1944 - Russian "Black Book" lists German crimes. The first volume of a five-volume Russian "black book" recording the documentary form of the German massacre of approximately 6,000,000 European Jews has been completed by the Soviet state publishing house [....] The five-volume work is under the general editorship of Ilya Ehrenburg, noted Soviet writer and war correspondent, with an editorial board that includes poet-playwright Kanstantin [Konstantin - Simonov, writer Vsevold [Vsevolod - Ivanov and poetess Vera Imber. Editors of the work -which will be published in both Russian and English in press runs of hundreds of thousands of copies- estimate from data now available that the Germans killed between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 Jews in Russia, Poland and western Europe. They believe an additional 500,000 now are being murdered in Hungary. 1944 The Palestine Post, November 28th, 1944 - SIX MILLIONS MURDERED. The Soviet State Publishing House is preparing the publication of another "Black Book," a documentary record of the German massacre of approximately six million European Jews. [....] According to the Soviet editors, the Germans killed between five and six million Russian, Polish and Western European Jews, and an additional half million are being murdered in Hungary now. 1944 The Jewish Criterion, December 1st, 1944 - [....] 5,500,000 Jews have been killed in Germany and German-occupied territories since the outbreak of the war. [....] Yes, the Germans murdered close to six million Jews [....] 1944 Nahum Goldmann, Jewish Western Bulletin, December 8th, 1944 - [....] apart from Jewish losses in combat service, 5,500,000 Jews have been killed in Germany and German-occupied tesritories [territories - since the outbreak of the awr [war - . These figures exceed the number anticipated even by the most pessimistic. [....] Yes, the Germans murdered close to six million Jews [....] 1944 Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet War News, December 22nd, 1944 - In the regions they seized, Germans killed all Jews, from the old folks to infants in arms. Ask any German prisoners why his fellow countrymen annihilated six million innocent people [....] 1945 New York Times, January 8th, 1945 - 6,000,000 JEWS DEAD. The Jewish population in Europe has been reduced from 9,500,000 in 1939 to 3,500,000. Of the 6,000,000 European Jews who have died, 5,000,000 had lived in the countries under Hitler's occupation. 1945 New York Times, February 11th, 1945, page 10 - 1,200,000 Jews survived of the 6,000,000 who had been under German rule during the war, and that most of them were eager to come to Palestine. 1945 New York Times, February 17th, 1945 - Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, estimated today that 500,000 of Europe's 6,000,000 Jews had escaped destruction by emigration and that only 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 of Europe's 6,000,000 Jews were now left on the Continent. 1945 Joseph Thon, president of the National Organization of Polish Jews in America, March 22nd, 1945 - I accuse the whole German people that in the years 1939 to 1945 they slaughtered upward of 15,000,000 men, among which there were 6,000,000 Jews. [....] The German people murdered, in cold blood, in excess of 6,000,000 European Jews, among them over 3,000,000 Polish Jews. 1945 Ilya Ehrenburg, The Advertiser, March 27th, 1945 - [....] the Germans tortured the last handful of Jews. The Germans killed six million Jews -all the Jews of Poland, Hungary, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Byelo-Russia, West Europe and of course Germany.