The Holocaust
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| The Holocaust | |
|---|---|
| Part of World War II | |
 Hungarian Jews arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944 | |
| Perpetrators | Nazi Germany and collaborators |
| Date | 1941–1945 |
| Location | Nazi-occupied Europe |
| Victims | Jews, Roma, Slavs, disabled, political prisoners, LGBTQ+, others |
| Crime type | Genocide, crimes against humanity |
| Deaths | ~6 million Jews ~Around 250,000 and 1.5 million Romani ~Around 275,000–300,000 disabled people ~9 million total |
The Holocaust or Shoah[a] was the genocide of European Jews, Romani, Slavs, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people during the Second World War. From 1941 to 1945, the Fascist-Imperialist state of Nazi Germany, along with collaborators and various allies, murdered 9 million people in Nazi-occupied Europe, using horrific means such as mass shootings, poison gas, starvation, and other means of murder.
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- ↑ Means "catastrophic destruction" in Hebrew.