The Holocaust
1941 – 1945 · Auschwitz and occupied Europe
Genocide of European Jews, 1941 to 1945: Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews, about two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population, chiefly by mass shootings and poison gas at extermination camps in occupied Poland. After the early-1942 Wannsee Conference, the Final Solution set out to murder all Jews in Europe.
Key people
Participants
Strength and losses
| All | |
|---|---|
| Deaths | 6,000,000 |
Battles and events 3
- Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre August 27, 1941
- 1941 Odessa massacre 1941 – October 24, 1941
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19 – May 16, 1943
- Battle of Muranów Square April 19–22, 1943
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