Introduction to the Holocaust - United States Holocaust …
WEBThe Holocaust (1933–1945) was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators. 1 In addition to perpetrating the Holocaust, Nazi Germany also persecuted and murdered millions of other victims.
Holocaust: Definition, Remembrance & Meaning | HISTORY
WEBOct 14, 2009 · The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of millions of Jews, Romani people, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime from 1933-1945.
Holocaust Encyclopedia | United States Holocaust Memorial …
WEBThe Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Start learning today.
Holocaust: Definition and Facts | HISTORY
WEBHolocaust. The Holocaust, during which some 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other people were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany during World War II,...
The Holocaust - Wikipedia
WEBThe Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in …
What is the holocaust? | Anne Frank House
WEBDuring the Second World War, the Nazis murdered nearly six million European Jews. This genocide is called the Holocaust. Here, you can read about its causes and backgrounds, the stages of the Holocaust, and the perpetrators.
The Holocaust: Facts and Figures | Nazi Germany & World War II
WEBOne of history’s darkest chapters, the Holocaust was the systematic killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939–45).
What was the Holocaust?
WEBThe Holocaust is the term for the genocide of around six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators during the Second World War. The Holocaust is also sometimes referred to as the Shoah, the Hebrew word for catastrophe. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis sought to eliminate the entire Jewish community of Europe.
What Was The Holocaust? - Holocaust History | IWM - Imperial …
WEBThe Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. This programme of targeted mass murder was a central part of the Nazis’ broader plans to create a …
What Is the Origin of the Term Holocaust? | Britannica
WEBThe word Holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God. This word was chosen, and gained wide usage, because, in the ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program—the extermination camps —the bodies of the victims were consumed whole in ...
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