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The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ, US also / ˈ h oʊ l ə-/) [1] 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.
Holocaust studies, or sometimes Holocaust research, is a scholarly discipline that encompasses the historical research and study of the Holocaust.Institutions dedicated to Holocaust research investigate the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of Holocaust methodology, demography, sociology, and psychology.
In 1981, the British historian Timothy Mason published an essay entitled "Intention and Explanation" that was in part an attack on the scholarship of Karl Dietrich Bracher and Klaus Hildebrand, both of whom Mason accused of focusing too much on Adolf Hitler as an explanation of the Holocaust. In this essay, Mason called the followers of "the ...
Proponents of uniqueness argue that the Holocaust had unique aspects which were not found in other historical events. [20] [21] Historian Daniel Blatman sums up the uniqueness position as arguing it was the "only genocide in which the murderers' goal was the total extermination of the victim, with no rational or pragmatic reason", but Blatman and other scholars say this is not true of the ...
Jan. 17—From staff reports The theme for this year's Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust writing and art contests is "Young Heroes of the Holocaust." Middle school and high school ...
A review by British historian Simone Gigliotti in the German Studies Review found that the encyclopedia is "a highly significant and overdue synthesis of existing documentary studies and specialized knowledge", although she notes it is not the first effort at a comprehensive reference on a Holocaust topic: previous multivolume encyclopedias had ...
May 11—MANDATA — Three seniors from Line Mountain School District placed first, second and honorable mention in the Days of Remembrance Essay contest for 2022. Cortney Keim, of Trevorton, took ...
The existence of specific lessons to be learned from the Holocaust is cited as a justification for Holocaust education, but challenged by some critics. [5] There is a tension between the argument that the Holocaust was a unique event in history and that it has lessons that could be applied to other situations. [6]