The Holocaust

The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, approximately two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chelmno, and Majdanek in occupied Poland. Following the Wannsee Conference in early 1942, the Nazis implemented the Final Solution to murder all Jews in Europe. It is considered the single deadliest genocide in human history.