Boston University’s director of the Elie Wiesel archive, Bar-Ilan University’s Institute of Holocaust Research historian Joel Rappel has discovered the origin of the infamous “6,000,000” number: a 1944 meeting of Zionist pioneering organizations in what is now known as the state of Israel…

Source: https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/israeli-historian-discovers-6-million-holocaust-figure-was-invented-at-zionist-conference-in-1944/