The Holocaust

Holocaust

Introduction

We use the world Holocaust to describe the annihilation and martyrdom of the European Jews under the Nazi occupation during the Second World War. The word literally means "massive destruction by fire." It is generally believed that the Nazis have murdered a total of eleven million people, including political opponents, Gypsies, mentally ill, homosexuals, and other "undesirables". An estimated six million were killed because they were Jews. The Nazi state systematically implemented a plan to destroy all Jews simply because they existed.
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	Camps

	Of the approximately 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, more than half were systematically exterminated in the highly rationalized gas chamber/crematorium system of the Nazi Death Camps between 1942 and 1945. The names of Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzek and Majdanek are indelibly stamped on history. Following the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, January 20, 1942, the "Final Solution" was an official policy and a major obsession of the Nazi regime. It was at that point that camps were constructed for the express purpose of rational mass extermination, principally of Jews, but of other groups as well. Click at the picture to read about the camps.


	Anne Frank

		Over one million children died in the Holocaust Anne Frank was one of them. She became known because of her diary that reflects those difficult days and has become a universal message of courage and hope in the face of adversity. Click at the picture to read about her life and her diary, "Kitty".