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"The Holocaust" is the name commonly applied in English since the mid-1940s to the systematic extermination of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.
27 lis 2020 · Using first-hand accounts from Holocaust survivors and secret Nazi documents, professor Iman Nick reveals how personal names were used to fulfil Hitler's genocidal vision — and connects how...
During the Second World War, the Nazis murdered nearly six million European Jews. This genocide is called the Holocaust. Here, you can read about its causes and backgrounds, the stages of the Holocaust, and the perpetrators.
The term Holocaust, derived from a Greek word meaning 'burnt offering', [1] has become the most common word used to describe the Nazi extermination of Jews in English and many other languages. [a] The term Holocaust is sometimes used to refer to the persecution of other groups that the Nazis targeted, [b] especially those targeted on a biological basis, in particular the Roma and Sinti, as ...
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race was given a name, “genocide,” by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born jurist who served as an adviser to the U.S. Department of War during World War II.
14 paź 2009 · The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of millions of Jews, Romani people, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime from 1933‑1945.
The genocide now known as the Holocaust was the state-sponsored mass murder of six million Jewish men, women and children. There was nothing inevitable about the decision of the Nazis and their collaborators to attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews, and hundreds of thousands of people were complicit.
