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  2. Holocaust: Definition, Remembrance & Meaning - HISTORY

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    The Holocaust was the state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews, Romani people, the intellectually disabled, political dissidents and homosexuals by the...

  3. Introduction to the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial...

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    The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators. The Holocaust was an evolving process that took place throughout Europe between 1933 and 1945.

  4. Holocaust summary - Encyclopedia Britannica

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    Holocaust, Hebrew Shoʾah, Systematic state-sponsored killing of Jews and others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.

  5. The Holocaust: Facts and Figures | Nazi Germany & World War II -...

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    One 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).

  6. Holocaust: Definition and Facts - HISTORY

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    The Holocaust, during which some 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other people were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany during World War II, was one of the most horrific war...

  7. What Was The Holocaust? - Holocaust History | IWM - Imperial War...

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    The 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 new world order based on their ideology.

  8. The Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

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    The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys deliberate, organized, state-sponsored persecution and genocide of European Jews. During the war, the Nazi regime and their collaborators systematically murdered over six million Jewish people.

  9. Learn about the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial...

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    The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. Learn more in the Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia.

  10. World War II and the Holocaust, 1939–1945

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    TEXT ON SCREEN: The Holocaust darkened the worlds view of humanity and our future. As the world struggled to understand what had happened, a new word, genocide, was needed for these crimes—crimes committed by ordinary people from a society not unlike our own.

  11. What was the Holocaust?

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    The Holocaust was the attempt by Nazi Germany and its collaborators to murder the Jews of Europe. During the six years of World War II, systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored and government-organized persecution and oppression resulted in the deaths of six million European Jews from across the continent.