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The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɑː l ə k ɔː ˈ s t / ⓘ, HAW-lə-kawst) 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.
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [342] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [343]
Circumstantial evidence: during World War II, the population of Jews in German-occupied Europe was reduced by about six million. [6] [14] About 2.7 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kulmhof extermination camp, and the Operation Reinhard camps never to be seen or heard from again. [4] [15]
Polish resistance movement in World War II: lethal injection after voluntarily taking place of another prisoner, Auschwitz: Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski: 1913–1945: Polish: priest Polish resistance movement in World War II: Dachau: Karl Ernst Krafft: 1900–1945: Swiss: astrologer, occultist
The 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.
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (German: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe, primarily Occupied Poland, during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million people – mostly Jews – in the Holocaust.
A timeline of the Holocaust is detailed in the events which are listed below. Also referred to as the Shoah (in Hebrew), the Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators. About 1.5 million of the victims were children.
By April 1942, when the operation finished, at least 6,000 and as many as 20,000 people had been killed [37] [38] – the first act of systematic killing in the camp system. [39] Beginning in August 1941, selected Soviet prisoners of war were killed within the concentration camps, usually within a few days of their arrival.