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The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), 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 German invasion of Poland starts World War II in Europe. Thousands of Polish Jews and non-Jews are killed by the SS-Einsatzgruppen during Operation Tannenberg. 2 September 1939 Stutthof concentration camp is established near Danzig. [38] 21 September 1939
Perhaps the deadliest of these Holocaust-era pogroms was the Iași pogrom in Romania, in which as many as 14,000 Jews were killed by Romanian citizens, police, and military officials. By December 1941, Adolf Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews. [8]
By the end of 1941, they had killed 500,000 people, and by 1945 they had murdered about two million - 1.3 million of whom were Jewish. Behind the lines, Nazi commanders were experimenting with ...
The explicit orders given to the Order Police varied between locations, but for Police Battalion 309 participating in the first mass murder of 5,500 Polish Jews in the Soviet-controlled Białystok (a Polish provincial capital), Major Weiss explained to his officers that Barbarossa is a war of annihilation against Bolshevism, [40] and that his ...
The Holocaust in Italy was the persecution, deportation, and murder of Jews between 1943 and 1945 in the Italian Social Republic, the part of the Kingdom of Italy occupied by Nazi Germany after the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, during World War II.
killed in the Warsaw Ghetto: Janusz Kusociński: 1907–1940: Polish: athlete;1932 Los Angeles men's athletics gold medalist Polish resistance movement in World War II: executed in Palmiry: Dawid Przepiórka: 1880–1940: Polish: chess player; chess Olympian Jewish: executed, Warsaw: Leon Sperling: 1900–1941: Polish: left wing on national ...
If we did not fight the Jews, they would destroy us. It's a life-and-death struggle between the Aryan race and the Jewish bacillus." [29] In November 1941, Goebbels published an article "The Jews are to blame" which returned to Hitler's prophecy of 1939 and stated that world Jewry was suffering a "gradual process of extermination". [26]