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Jewish Cities in Europe in 1930 with a Map

With the help of a map, can you name the European cities that had the highest Jewish population in 1930?
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Population estimates according to this map.
Both historical and modern-day names accepted.
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# of Jews
City
352,659
Warsaw
233,991
London
204,371
Budapest
202,497
Łódź
178,034
Vienna
175,000
Paris
160,564
Berlin
153,423
Odesa
140,256
Kyiv
131,747
Moscow
99,595
Lviv
84,505
Leningrad
81,130
Kharkiv
# of Jews
City
74,480
Bucharest
65,523
Amsterdam
62,073
Dnipropetrovsk
56,800
Kraków
55,250
Thessaloniki
55,006
Vilnius
53,686
Minsk
46,698
Istanbul
43,558
Riga
42,932
Cernăuți
41,405
Chișinău
39,165
Białystok
37,745
Gomel
# of Jews
City
37,337
Lublin
37,013
Vitebsk
35,425
Prague
34,786
Manchester
32,369
Iași
30,812
Berdychiv
30,001
Zhytomyr
29,385
Frankfurt am Main
28,969
Kremenchuk
27,289
Sofia
26,323
Rostov-on-Don
25,044
Kaunas
# of Jews
City
25,000
Leeds
24,465
Radom
23,248
Stanislav
22,663
Częstochowa
22,179
Uman
22,000
Antwerp
21,812
Vinnytsia
21,786
Mykolaiv
21,702
Rovno
21,625
Będzin
21,558
Babruysk
20,502
Breslau
5 Comments
+5
Level 67
May 25, 2024
Sad to see most of it ended just because of a madman
+1
Level 68
May 26, 2024
Keep in mind a lot of them also just migrated to Israel.
+3
Level 47
May 27, 2024
Yeah, the scraps that were left of the once large communities
+4
Level 63
May 25, 2024
Nothing is more terrifying at times than numbers. The scale of the tragedy is incredible, just incredible, I feel sorry for all the dead and tortured people.
+3
Level 47
May 27, 2024
For me, the numbers didn’t hit me. It’s so hard to fathom millions of people that it doesn’t bear the full weight. What really shocked me was seeing this map:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/egcdqs/jewish_population_in_europe_1933_and_2015/

It’s staggering how big the blow was and idiots somehow deny the Holocaust happened