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The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] 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 collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
Van Pelt and German historian Klaus-Peter Friedrich [9] compare Volume II to The Yad Yashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust, [32] which covers similar territory. The Yad Vashem book has less detail on what took place during the war, instead emphasizing Jewish life before the war and continuity between the prewar community and ...
The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1990) has been called "the most recognized reference book on the Holocaust". [1] It was published in an English-language translated edition by Macmillan in tandem with the Hebrew language original edition published by Yad Vashem (יד ושם), the Holocaust Remembrance Authority in Israel.
"The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland", by the Polish government-in-exile addressed to the wartime allies of the then-United Nations, 1942. The Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations was the first formal statement to the world about the Holocaust, issued on December 17, 1942, by the American and British governments on behalf of the Allied Powers. [1]
Czesława Kwoka, 14-year-old Auschwitz concentration camp victim. Nazi Germany perpetrated various crimes against humanity and war crimes against children, including the killing of children of unwanted or "dangerous" people in accordance with Nazi ideological views, either as part of their idea of racial struggle or as a measure of preventive security.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu honors Johan van Hulst (R) for his resistance work (Reuters) Johan van Hulst, who died in 2018 at the age of 107, is remembered for his valiant work with Dutch ...
[4] [8] Nevertheless, much of the evidence was preserved and collected by Allied investigators during and after the war, and the overwhelming evidence of the crimes ultimately made such erasure attempts futile. Collectively, the evidence refutes the arguments of Holocaust deniers that the Holocaust did not occur as described in historical ...
Just last month, the town's Jewish cemetery was completely defaced, and on a more global scale, the vandalization of Holocaust memorials isn't new at all. We've seen incidents occur everywhere ...