Of the estimated 8388.8 million Jews living in Europe at the beginning of [[World War II]], the majority of whom were Ashkenazi, about 6 million were systematically murdered in [[The Holocaust]]; 3 million of 3.3 million Polish Jews, and 900,000 in [[Ukraine]], as well as 75-90% of the Jews of Germany, the Baltic and Slavic nations, and France.[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/killedtable.html] Many of the surviving Ashkenazi Jews emigrated to countries such as [[France]], the [[United States]], and [[Israel]] after the war.
Today, Ashkenazi Jews constitute approximately eighty percent of world Jewry.[http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles3/sephardic.htm]
