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The Nazis kept detailed records of the people who passed through the camps; nevertheless, we do not know how many Jews may still have been unaccounted for in the many places where they were murdered. In addition, as the Allies began to close in on Germany , the Nazis began to destroy their records.
Number of victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution 1933-1945, by background. Most estimates place the total number of deaths during the Second World War at around 70-85 million...
The Holocaust. Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were selected to go to the gas chambers. The Holocaust (/ ˈhɑːləkɔːˈst / ⓘ, 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 ...
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).
About six million Jews and some five million others, targeted for racial, political, ideological and behavioral reasons, died in the Holocaust—more than one million of those who perished...
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored, persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, was appointed the chancellor of Germany.
The letter says, “In Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps, 6,000,000 Jews were tortured, gassed or burned to death.” The following are the USHMM’s best estimates of civilians and captured soldiers killed by the Nazis and their collaborators.