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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.
Victims of a death march (via train) from Buchenwald to Dachau, 29 April 1945 German civilians, under direction of U.S. medical officers, walk past a group of 30 Jewish women starved to death (Volary, Czechoslovakia) 1945. The largest [5] and the most notorious of the death
In addition to the registered prisoners who died, a million Jews were gassed upon arriving in Auschwitz; including these victims, the total death toll is estimated at 1.8 to more than two million. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Most of the fatalities occurred during the second half of World War II, including at least a third of the 700,000 prisoners who were ...
In the early 1990s, the Jewish Holocaust organisations debated with the Polish Catholic groups about "What religious symbols of martyrdom are appropriate as memorials in a Nazi death camp such as Auschwitz?" The Jews opposed the placement of Christian memorials such as the Auschwitz cross near Auschwitz I where mostly Poles were killed. The ...
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators as a central act of state during the Second World War; as night descended, millions of other peoples were swept into this net of death. It was a crime unique in the annals of human history, different not only in the quantity of ...
The challenge of Holocaust memory extends beyond sites of murder to the places where Jews sought refuge. My own research has focused on identifying and marking these spaces of survival.
Rough approximation of Holocaust deaths according to a broad definition that includes non-Jews, such as Romani, Slavs, Soviet POWs and political opponents (click image for more details) While the terms Shoah and Final Solution always refer to the fate of the Jews during the Nazi rule , the term Holocaust is sometimes used in a wider sense to ...
'Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day'), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (Hebrew: יום השואה, Yiddish: יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and ...