The one thing that is clear is that there are fewer Jews today than there were on September 1, 1939. The common phrase after October 7, 2023, was "the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust." The largest population of Holocaust survivors today is in Israel. My parents were considered Holocaust survivors, though technically they fled Germany just prior to the war. He discussed the Holocaust and said that the existence of the IDF guaranteed that such things could never happen again.