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But why do Jews ignore the horrific numbers killed by the Nazis?

It is not that it is ignored or unknown. In my Jewish Sunday School textbook, from 1970, it stated that revised estimates showed 5.4 million Jews died in Nazi extermination operations, as well as about six million non-Jews.

Germany in the late 1930's established racial purity laws and administration to ban Jews from daily life and sight. The death operations and concentration camps were set up to rid Germany and conquered areas of Jews and other "troublemakers".

We regret the loss of all innocent life. Losing almost half of all Jews on earth in five years is so horrible to contemplate - the worst tragedy in our history. It is, I guess, for other (non-Jewish) scholars to provide more information about the other unfornutates who perished in the fields, woods and camps. One posible problem in the past was that most of the people killed came from areas that soon came under Communist control. Deaths of Christian activists or leaders would not have been in the Reds' best interest to highlight.

It would not be so bad if some Jews had not recently sought to scapegoat Pius XII for the actions of the Nazis and to say that he held back from condemning Hitler because he was anti-semitic or because he preferred the Nazis over the Communists. I think it should be clear by now that Hitler had a terrible grip on the throat of most people in Europe, not just the Jews. Furthermore, Hitler also had his supporters in every country, so to oppose him was not only to face a small clique but a considerable body of his followers. Thank God that we killed most of the SS forces and that his popular support in Germany and elsewhere melted away after his destruction.

"One posible problem in the past was that most of the people killed came from areas that soon came under Communist control. Deaths of Christian activists or leaders would not have been in the Reds' best interest to highlight."

Yeah, good point, I think. Certainly Jews are blameless in the matter of how much notoriety may have been attached to the executions by Nazis of Poles or Russians.