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1 day ago · The Holocaust 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. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...
5 days ago · Holocaust - Nazi Persecution, Genocide, Concentration Camps: After Kristallnacht in 1938 even more discrimination was directed at Jews, eventually leading to confinement in ghettos. People considered inferior by the Nazis, such as Jews, Roma, and homosexuals, were sent to concentration camps.
- Michael Berenbaum
5 days ago · Nazi concentration camps were under the administration of the SS; forced-labour camps of the Soviet Union were operated by a succession of organizations beginning in 1917 with the Cheka and ending in the early 1990s with the KGB.
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3 days ago · Auschwitz, perhaps the most notorious and lethal of the concentration camps, was actually three camps in one: a prison camp (Auschwitz I), an extermination camp (Auschwitz II–Birkenau), and a slave labour camp (Auschwitz III–Buna-Monowitz).
- Michael Berenbaum
Sep 6, 2024 · The major concentration camps in Serbia were Sajmište and Banjica but many others like Topovske Šupe, Šabac, and Niš concentration camps also interned considerable numbers of Jews. [376] Before the war was concluded, upwards of 14,500 Serbian Jews were murdered. [ 377 ]
3 days ago · The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.
Aug 28, 2024 · The following details a list of key chronological events of the Holocaust, spanning from 1933 to 1945. January 30: Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany; March 22: Dachau concentration camp opens; April 1: Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
