Holocaust

During the Holocaust, Nazi Germany exterminated some 6 million Jews, as well as millions of Roma people, political dissenters, homosexuals and others, in one of the most horrific war crimes ever committed.

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Antisemitism, sometimes called history’s oldest hatred, is hostility or prejudice against Jewish people.

The “Night of Broken Glass” was a Nazi pogrom that foreshadowed the Holocaust.

While some had been driven from the camp, thousands of emaciated prisoners had been left behind to die.

In the wake of the Holocaust, the Allies set up the camps throughout Europe to offer temporary homelands to traumatized populations.

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It was knit by the girl's grandmother, who was then killed by Nazis, and it kept the child warm as the child endured incredible hardship.

How many were killed, how many children were sent to the site and the numbers of people who attempted to escape are among the facts that reveal the scale of crimes committed at Auschwitz.

Carl Lutz managed to save half of Budapest's Jewish population by exploiting the Nazi's respect for paperwork.

The wrenching images and first-hand testimonies of Dachau recorded by U.S. soldiers brought the horrors of the Holocaust home to America.

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Auschwitz opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps.

Antisemitism, sometimes called history’s oldest hatred, is hostility or prejudice against Jewish people.

The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of millions of Jews, Roma, political dissidents, homosexuals and others by the Nazi regime.

Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was a prolonged series of violent attacks on Jewish people, homes, businesses and synagogues in 1938 Germany.

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Ilse Koch was accused of committing atrocities at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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As Allied troops move across Europe, they encounter the horror of thousands of prisoners in Nazi camps.

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Ernst vom Rath’s murder triggered a two-day pogrom against German Jews.

Eugenics is the now-discredited practice of “improving” the human race and reducing the impact of hereditary disease by mating people with desirable traits.

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Multiple people have been suspected of informing the Nazis of the Franks' hiding place, while one theory suggests it may have simply been bad luck.

Long before he rose to become a ruthless dictator, the Nazi leader was a struggling young artist.

Freddie and Truus Oversteegen sometimes ambushed Nazi officers from their bicycles—and never revealed how many they had assassinated.

Horrifying medical experiments on twins helped Nazis justify the Holocaust.

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