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A fact from Raid on the Roman Ghetto appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 October 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
"In total, a quarter of the Jewish population of Rome–over 2,000 people–was deported, of which only 102 survived the Holocaust."
"...[M]ore than ninety percent of the Jews in Rome avoided arrest and survived the Holocaust,..."
The two percentages quoted can't both be correct. Based on other population figures quoted in the article, e.g., "8,000 Italian Jews were in Rome, one-fifth of all Jews in Italy," the 2,000+ deported from Rome constitute about 5% of the total Italian Jewish population. Perhaps the second quote above should read, "more than ninety percent of the Jews in Italy [emphasis mine] avoided arrest..." But the article doesn't specify or cite how many Jews outside Rome were also deported, so that is just a guess on my part.
Kelseymh (talk) 05:41, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Kelseymh: Your point is very vaild yet this is what the sources say:
...approximately a quarter of Rome’s Jews were deported while the rest spent eight haunted months in hiding. Only 102 Jews of the 2091 deportees survived the war, ... (Source: The destruction of the Jews of Italy)
For every Jew caught by the Germans in Rome, at least 10 escaped and hid, ... (Source: USHMM: Rome)
I don't know how to align these two figures either! Turismond (talk) 07:35, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Looking further, even USHMM states that 1,800 of were caught while 10,000 escaped. I have removed the 90%, it just can't be correct. Thanks for pointing that out! Turismond (talk) 07:39, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Turismond: Thank you! I read through the USHMM article; my guess is that they did conflate "Rome" and "Italy" in their discussion, but I think my guess falls under "original research" :-) Your solution is probably the best—readers can do the calculation themselves if they want to.
