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munities in that it has not
done such a survey within re-
cent memory.
Demographic surveys are
expensive, a spokesman for
the Detroit Jewish Welfare
Federation pointed out. "If we
found out we had 60,000 or
80,000 it would not make a
whole lot of difference, except
to satisfy people's curiosity."
The estimate of 70,000 Jews
"is based on the operating
assumption that the number
of people who have left town
have equalled the number of
people who have arrived," he
said.
A demographic study is
planned for the coming year,
according to Federation presi-
dent, Dr. Conrad Giles.
Nationally, according to the
Year Book, California's
Jewish population had the
biggest absolute increase over
the past half-century, with a
rise of 691,000; Florida was
second, with an increase of
506,000. In relative terms,
the biggest growth occurred
in Hawaii, where the Jewish
population multiplied 95
times, from 80 to 7,600 Jews.
The greatest absolute
declines were in Illinois and
Pennsylvania, which lost
86,000 and 63,000 Jews
respectively. The largest
relative losses were in Wyom-
ing and Iowa, which lost 77

percent and 69 percent of
their Jewish populations
respectively.
The total Jewish population
of the United States in 1986
was estimated at 5.814
million, or 2.5 percent of the
general population. More
than half of U.S. Jews were
found to live in three regions:
New York-Northern New
Jersey, 38.1 percent; Los
Angeles, 10.4 percent; and
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, 6.3
percent.
States with the highest con-
centrations of Jews are: New
York, with 10.8 percent of its
population comprised of Jews;
New Jersey, 5.6 percent; and
Florida and Massachusetts,
4.7 percent each.
The United States, with an
estimated 5.8 million Jews,
has the largest Jewish
population in the world, ac-
cording to the Year Book.
Israel is second with an
estimated 1984 population of
3.5 million Jews. The Soviet
Union follows with 1.6
million.
The remaining ten largest
Jewish centers, according to
1984 estimates are: France,
530,000; Great Britain,
330,000; Canada, 310,000;
Argentina, 228,000; South
Africa, 118,000; and Brazil,
100,000.

Yad Vashem Receives
Grodno Documentation

Jerusalem (JTA) — A
five-volume documented
study of the destruction of
the Jewish community of
Grodno, a city in northeast
Poland, was presented to the
Yad Vashem Archives this
month by Nazi-hunters Serge
and Beate Klarsfeld.
The study includes trial
and pre-trial documents from
war crimes proceedings con-
ducted in West Germany
which the German
authorities had refused to re-
lease until now. The
Klarsfelds told a press con-
ference that they are "the
most important collection on
the Holocaust ever put to-
gether."
The volumes are collec-
tively titled "Documents Con-
cerning the Destruction of
the Jews of Grodno, 1941-
1945." Copies will be distrib-
uted to all of the major
documentation centers on the
Nazi era and war criminal
archives.
Of the 35,000 Jews in the
Grodno ghetto who were de-
ported to Auschwitz and
Treblinka, 70 survived. One
of the survivors, Felix
Sandman, who testified at
the trials of the Gestapo
commanders in charge of the

ghetto, told the press confer-
ence that he had asked the
German government at the
time to release the trial
documents, but was refused.
He said he appealed to
Klarsfeld who eventually
succeeded in obtaining the
documents.
Five Polish non-Jews who
saved Sandman's life were
honored by trees planted in
their names Sunday in the
"Avenue of Righteous Gen-
tiles" of the Yad Vashem
Holocaust Memorial.

Hitler Ordered
Mass Murder

United Nations (JTA) — A
preliminary study of the 500
files Israel obtained from the
United Nations War Crimes
Commission archive on June
5 confirms that the Nazis em-
barked on the extermination
of Jews in the early stages of
World War II, with the active
participation of Adolf Hitler,
the Israel Mission to the
United Nations disclosed.
The documents revealed for
the first time that Hitler per-
sonally ordered the mass
murder of 10,000 Jewish