THE HOLOCAUST

The Holocaust was the systematic extermination of six million Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.  When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, nine million Jews lived in Germany and the countries which Germany would occupy during World War II.  By May 1945, two out of three of these Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

Although Jews were the prime target of Nazi racism and murder, other groups were also persecuted and murdered as “inferior,” including Roma (Gypsies), handicapped and homosexuals.

To learn more about the Holocaust, visit this link from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum