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The victims of the Holocaust: an estimation... - JewishGen

It represents the authentic (analysis) total of Jews exterminated between September 1th, 1939 and May 8th, 1945. The total of the Jewish victims is just over ...

Holocaust: Definition, Remembrance & Meaning | HISTORY

The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of millions of Jews, Romani people, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi ...

What is the holocaust? | Anne Frank House

During the Second World War, the Nazis murdered nearly six million European Jews. This genocide is called the Holocaust. Here, you can read about its causes ...

Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi ...

Even though the Holocaust is one of the best documented genocides in history, there's limited quantitative data available.

25 Facts About The Holocaust

Jewish people were not the only victims of the Nazis. Other victims of Nazi mass murder included Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, Poles ...

The “Holocaust by Bullets” in Ukraine | New Orleans

Before World War II, the 1.5 million Jews living in the Soviet republic of Ukraine constituted the largest Jewish population within the Soviet ...

Poland - United States Department of State

World War II began in Europe with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939. Between 1939 and mid-1941, Nazi Germany occupied western Poland, ...

Quantifying the Holocaust: Hyperintense kill rates during the Nazi ...

this study identifies an extreme phase of hyperintense killing when >1.47 million Jews—more than 25% of the Jews killed in all 6 years of World ...

The number of victims / Auschwitz and Shoah / History / Auschwitz ...

Until the end of its existence, the Auschwitz camp was above all a place of extermination. In other camps, the death rate was lowered from 1943 in an effort to ...

Holocaust Facts: Where Does the Figure of 6 Million Victims Come ...

One of the most well-known, if not iconic, facts known about the Holocaust is the number of Jewish victims killed by Nazi Germany up through the ...

The Holocaust - College of Liberal Arts - University of Minnesota

The Holocaust often refers to the non-Jewish victims of Nazi Germany and is sometimes even extended to describe other genocides (for example, "Rwandan Holocaust ...

In Hamas' horrific killings, Israeli trauma over the Holocaust resurfaces

For many Israelis and Jews around the world, the horrors committed by Hamas militants during their stunning onslaught on southern Israeli ...

Murder of the Jews of Poland - Yad Vashem

Jews lived in Poland for 800 years before the Nazi occupation. On the eve of the occupation 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland – more than any other country ...

Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder

Germany and other European nations. The table first lists the various major genocides carried out by the Nazis and the numbers likely murdered: 16,315,000 ...

What is Holocaust Denial? - Museum of Tolerance

03. What are the basic views of Holocaust deniers? 04. How can Holocaust Revisionists deny Nazi atrocities ...

My Great-Uncle, The Holocaust's First Jewish Victim - The Atlantic

Arthur Kahn is believed to be the first Jewish person killed by the Nazis. I've known the story of his death as long as I can remember, but I wanted to learn ...

Will the Exact Number of Jewish Victims Ever Be Known?

The fundamental claim of Holocaust deniers is that the Nazis did not murder 6 million European Jews and did not implement a policy of genocide.

Holocaust Experience and Mortality Patterns: 4-Decade Follow-up in ...

Whether as captives in concentration/death camps or as escapees, Jewish survivors of the Holocaust have faced a combination of severe multifaceted stress ...

Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust & Nazi Persecution

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) notes, Calculating the numbers of individuals who were killed as the result of Nazi policies is a difficult task.

JewishGen's Holocaust Database

JewishGen's Holocaust Database is a unique and critically valuable collection of databases which contain information about Holocaust victims and survivors.