The holacaust
- The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, 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.
- Learn about the Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its.
- The Holocaust 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.
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Introduction to the Holocaust
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The Holocaust (1933–1945) was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators.1In addition to perpetrating the Holocaust, Nazi Germany also persecuted and murdered millions of other victims.
What was the Holocaust?
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines the years of the Holocaust as 1933–1945. The Holocaust era began in January 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. It ended in May 1945, when the Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. The Holocaust is also sometimes referred to as “the Shoah,” the Hebrew word for “catastrophe.”
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Boycott of Jewish-owned businesses (Photo)
Members of the Storm Troopers (SA), with boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. One of the signs exhorts: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!"
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What was the Holocaust?
The Holocaust is the term for the genocide of around six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators during the Second World War.The Holocaust is also sometimes referred to as the Shoah, the Hebrew word for catastrophe.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis sought to eliminate the entire Jewish community of Europe. Jews were murdered by death squads called Einsatzgruppen or transported to extermination camps . Six million of the eleven million European Jews in Europe perished. The Holocaust mainly occurred in Eastern Europe, in places such as occupied Poland and Ukraine.
The term ‘Holocaust’ is sometimes also used to refer to the orchestrated murder of Roma in Europe. As many as 500,000 Roma and Sinti individuals were murdered by the Nazis.
Other groups were also targeted by the Nazi regime. People with disabilities, Soviet Prisoners of War and Soviet and Polish civilians were persecuted and targeted for mass murder because of their perceived racial inferiority. Gay people, socialists, communists and trades unionists, Freemasons and Jehov
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International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust (27 January 2025)
On this international day dedicated to the remembrance of genocides and the prevention of crimes against humanity, France commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau 80 years ago and remembers the victims of the Holocaust. President Macron, accompanied by Minister Delegate for Europe Benjamin Haddad, will take part in the ceremonies.
On January 27, 1945, the world discovered the horror of the genocide carried out by the Nazis and their allies. To make sure the world never forgets the atrocities and their victims, the UN proclaimed this date to be the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The Nazi regime and its collaborators systematically exterminated the Jewish people and a number of other groups because of their ethnic origins, beliefs, physical features or sexual orientation.
France defends universal, inalienable, indivisible human rights by combating all forms of discrimination, racism and xenophobia, and all types of hate speech. Hol
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