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The Holocaust : The Victims Of The Holocaust

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The holocaust ‘is a term that refers to the systematic murder of six million Jews by the Germany’s Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) Party, led by Adolph Hitler, during World War II. The Holocaust began slowly with Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, and continued until the war ended in 1945. Discrimination against Jews was followed by the separation of Jews from non-Jews, persecution, and finally slaughter. The Nazis intended to murder all the Jews in Europe. In 1941, about 11 million Jews were living in Europe. ‘By May 1945, 6 million had been killed, including 1.5 million children.’ Victims of the Holocaust include Janina Dawidowicz and Eugene Black.
In 1921 Adolf Hitler became leader of the Nazi party. The Nazis were racists and believed that their Aryan race was superior to others. To them, an Aryan was anyone who was European and not Jewish, Romany or Slavic. Hitler wanted to exterminate all Jews. Many people in Germany supported the Nazis and their racist ideas. In 1934 Hitler became Germany's head of state. He introduced anti-Semitic laws which discriminated against Jewish people living in the areas he controlled.
During WWII, the Nazis established more than 400 ghettos in order to isolate Jews from the non-Jewish population and from neighbouring Jewish communities. The reason for doing this the Nazis believed was to stop the Jews whom they thought were the inferior race from mixing with and therefore degrading the Aryan race. The ghettos in Nazi occupied Europe were

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