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Holocaust; Greek origin, meaning "sacrifice by fire".
Ran by the Nazi's regime and it's collaborators.
The systematic and state-sponsored persecution and murder of six-million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborator.

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Germans thought the Jews were inferior and they're a threat to the racial community. The Jewish people were the main target of the Nazis.

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Born 1921 in Lodz Poland
Arriving in Auschwitz, he heard the screaming of people inside the camp. He was torn from the arms of his mother when his mother said, " I am not going to see you anymore, take care of your brother!" That was the last time he saw his mother. He was then sent out to the Gross-Rosen camp for forced labor. He was liberated from the Ebensee camp in Austria in 1945.

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Germans targeted gypsies, the disabled, and some Slavic people. Others were persecuted because of their political and ideological views and their behavioral grounds such as communists, socialist, Jehovahs witnesses and homosexuals.

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To monitor Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews the Germans made ghettos, transit camps and forced-labor camps for the Jews. They used "Death Marches" to kill them on the way to the concentration camps.

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200,000 mentally or physically disabled living in institutional settings were murdered in the Euthanasia program.
Two to three million soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of disease,neglect, or maltreatment.

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They used "Death Marches".
Survivors found shelter in DP camps. (displaced persons)
700,000 Jews went to Israel (1948-1951).
136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe

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The Germans and their collaborators, killed nearly two out of every three European Jews in 1945.
The Nazi policy was to murder the Jews of Europe.