Long ago I came to the conclusion that the number of Jewish deaths during the Second World War was 2.5 million, but there remained 900,000 assumed survivors, which had not been found from anywhere. I have now found new information and can propose a solution. The updated paper is here:
Sorry, the moderator of the ResearchGate removed the paper. It is here
http://www.pienisalaliittotutkimus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/holopaper2022.doc
This calculation is as follows. The American Jewish Yearbook figures, when corrected to give 8.89 million Jews in 1939, give the death toll 4.406 million.
The first correction is that there was 1.2 million less in 1939. Thus, the death toll decreases to 3.2 million. This decrease is caused by the Ukrainian Jewish population in the AJY being 1.5 million in 1926, while it was 0.5 million. The area Galicia, which belonged to Austria before the World War 1, is calculated twice: to Poland and to Ukraine. In 1926 it was in Poland, but in 1919 and 1940 it was in Ukraine. This is the 1 million error. The 0.2 million error is that 200,000 Galician Jews moved to France between the wars, between 1932 and 1939. Walter Sanning found this error first. I verified and proved it my way.
The new error I found very recently is that there were 450,000 more survivors and they went to Poland. They were (West) Polish Jews taken to the three Operation Reinhardt camps and from there to Ukraine or Bialestock area. These survivors I found by investigating the DNA results from Poland. mtDNA haplogroup L2a frequency in Poland was 2% in 2019, which implies 450,000 additional Jews in (West) Poland in 1946, in addition to the known Polish Jewish survivors of 350,000. The argument follows from a published paper that found 3 L2a in Poland. They were found in the Silesian voivodeship because the sample in Silesia was the largest. Silesia, however, is a rather typical voivodeship in the plot of Y-DNA Hg. E versus mtDNA Hg. K and we can generalize the result to whole Poland. My analysis is here
I will later add the figure of Y-DNA E versus mtDNA K to show that Silesia is rather typical to the paper, but at the moment the figure is not ready.
This correction reduces the death toll to 2.86 million, but the very end of my Calculation of the death toll paper adds the final reduction of 360,000. This reduction comes from the children sent to Chelmno, some 75,000. They were not gassed in gas vans, They were shipped to kibbutzes in Palestine. There is an additional 75,000 population increase in the Jewish population of Palestine before 1948 that cannot be explained by population growth or immigration. I assume it is these children. Then there are the Hungarian Jews. Adolph Eichmann said that they left 200,000 in an open camp in Auschwitz. I think they did so, but Russians did not find them there. I assume they went to Austria or Hungary. Danube flows rather close to Auschwitz, there was a well known escape route along Danube. I assume 234,000 Hungarian Jews escaped this way. Additionally I assume that the death toll in Chelmon was only 24,000, so 150,000-24,000=75,000 (the children) + 51,000=126,000 survived.
Adding 234,000+126,000=360,000 survivors reduces the death toll from 2.86 million to 2.5 million and it reduces the death toll of Jews sent to Operation Reinhardt camps form 1.48 million – 0.45 million= 1.03 million to 1.03-0.36 million=670,000. Of them 262,000 returned to West Poland 1946-1948 and 91,000 stayed in the Soviet Union. This calculation gives 60,000 death toll to Auschwitz, 24,000 death toll to Chelmno, 670,000 death toll to Jews sent to the three Operation Reinhardt (they only passed the camps, some died in the camps, most died in work camps and ghettos where they were taken), 800,000 death toll for those who were evacuated to deeper SU, 454,000 for all other German camps, war and terror, and 100,000 for Einsatzgruppen in the East. I think this is a reasonable solution.