Dividing Jews serves no purpose.
My first MIL was born in Germany. Her parents were OstJuden born in Poland. In 1936 her parents had their business and property confiscated and were forcibly dumped over the Polish border. She and younger brother were considered German citizens so they were interned in a German (not Jewish) orphanage for years. In 1939 they escaped and with a group of young Jews walked all the way to southern Jugoslavia and they made their way to Palestine by ship.
Her parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins were all killed in the camps.
She survived the Holocaust, thus was a survivor. She complained in her adult life that she was excluded by survivors and organizations of survivors because she was not in the camps. She also never received any reparations because she was born in what became East Germany.
Her husband was born in Vienna. After the Anschluss he watched his grandparents and brother rounded up and sent to the camps, never to return. He was forced into slave labor for years. Again no reparations for family home and business or Austrian pension because Austria claimed it was an occupied country.
He got the same reaction: slave labor camp, not a survivor, death camp a survivor.
This whole topic is utter nonsense