Were ONE THIRD of Europe's Jews STILL ALIVE after the Holocaust? WHAT BALONEY. That sounds way too high. Yes, the Holocaust killed one-third of the Jews alive in the entire WORLD. Let's not get confused with these difficult fractional numbers. We may have to do long division next. Check your facts. It's your piece.

The Holocaust killed most of Europe's Jews. Leaving only tiny percentages of their pre-war numbers. The Jews who were not killed were NOT IN EUROPE. Since you are writing the piece, you check the facts. This is an important mistake, not a quibble. It completely changes the picture of what happened from very dark grey to utter black and yes that matters.

Nobody is minimizing other people's suffering and death. I knew a professor once who complained that his son had been in a concentration camp and "he wasn't even a Jew". Take that any way you want. I did not like it. It seemed natural to the professor that a Jew would be in there, and a lot less natural for someone else. A sort of horrible mistake. But it was his SON, so his natural feeling bought him an excuse from me. And he was a nice man and a good professor. But I remember that remark, so many years later.