The holocaust refers to the systematic extermination of approximately 6 million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies between 1941-1945. Key events included the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany after World War 1, the Nazi persecution of Jews beginning in 1933 with boycotts of Jewish businesses, and the mass killing of Jews in camps like Auschwitz beginning in 1941 as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" to eliminate the Jewish people. Millions of Jews were deported from across occupied Europe to ghettos and extermination camps where most were gassed to death or perished from starvation, disease, and forced labor. The holocaust stands as one of the worst crimes against humanity in modern history.
4. In the view of those who believed in the race theory, the Jews were a mongrel race—and a mortal threat to the “purity” of the “higher”race.
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8. A burning synagogue on the “night of broken glass” “Germans! Defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews”
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10. 60 per cent of those who stayed had lost their livelihood
11. The authorities arrested 30,000 Jews and sent them to concentration camps, where they were severely mistreated.
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13. "The Jew: The inciter of war, the prolonger of war.“
14. This picture depicts a supposedly innocent German citizen paying a Jewish man as the Jewish man sprays lies onto him.
15. On the left is the Jewish worm, with a dollar sign and Communist hammer and sickle sign form each pupil; on the right is a depiction of The Wandering Jew
16. "The work of the Jews: fabrics, cement, cartels, factories. Wants everything!”
17. Beginnings of the exterminations “FOR EVER LET THIS PLACE BE CRY OF DESPAIR AND A WARNING TO HUMANITY, WHERE THE NAZIS MURDERED ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILLION MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, MAINLY JEWS FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF EUROPE.” AUSCHWITZ- BIRKENAU 1940 - 1945 English memorial in auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp in Poland where many Jews faced the Nazi brutality.
18. December 12, 1941, Joseph Goebbels- “As concerns the Jewish question, [Hitler] is determined to make a clean sweep. He had prophesied to the Jews that if they once again brought about a world war they would experience their own extermination. This was not just an empty phrase. The World War is there, the extermination of Jewry must be the necessary consequence.”
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20. For instance, 33,000 Jews of Kiev, in Ukraine, were killed on September 29 and 30, 1941, in a ravine outside Kiev called Babi Yar.
21. In the autumn of 1941 a new phase began. Until then the targets had been Soviet Jews, but now the killing was extended to Jews in parts of Poland and Serbia.
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24. The countries from which Jews were deported included countries under German occupation—such as Norway, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Greece.
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26. Holocaust Memorial for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania – by David Ascalon. Yad vashem in Jerusalem
27. An interview with a holocaust survivor In this interview with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust survivor Susan (Strauss) Taube shares her memories of “THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS.”