The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), also known as the Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "catastrophe"; Yiddish: חורבן, Churben or Hurban, from the Hebrew for "destruction"), was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Of the nine million...
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End date:
- May 8, 1945
Type of disaster:
Films On This Subject:
- The Pianist ,
- The Counterfeiters ,
- Fateless ,
- The Stranger ,
- Kapò ,
- Life Is Beautiful ,
- Escape from Sobibor ,
- Distant Journey ,
- Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' ,
- Sunshine
Also known as:
- Shoa,
- Hurban
