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The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 — representing approximately two-thirds of European Jewry. The Nazis also murdered 5–6 million others: Roma, disabled people, Soviet POWs, political prisoners, and homosexuals.
The genocide was industrialized — using camps (Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek, Chelmno), mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen), mass shootings, and systematic starvation. Auschwitz-Birkenau alone killed 1.1 million people. The Nuremberg Trials (1945–46) established the legal framework for crimes against humanity and genocide — foundational principles of international law.
# Top 10 Holocaust facts
- 16 million Jews murdered
- 2Auschwitz killed 1.1 million
- 3Einsatzgruppen mobile killing units
- 4Wannsee Conference planned the 'Final Solution'
- 5Nuremberg Trials
- 6Elie Wiesel's Night
- 7Anne Frank's diary
- 81.5 million children murdered
- 9'Never Again'
- 10Israel founded 1948
Fascinating Facts
- ◆Anne Frank's diary has sold 30 million copies in 67 languages — her voice has reached more people than almost any 20th-century writer
- ◆The Nuremberg Trials established 'crimes against humanity' and 'genocide' as legal concepts — foundational to international criminal law
- ◆1.5 million Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust — entire family lines, communities, and cultures were erased
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