Holocaust

Holocaust was the, almost complete, destruction of Jews in World War II. Germany's Nazi party ordered the extermination of 5.6 million to 5.9 million Jews. Jews often refer to the Holocaust as Shoah. Shoah is the Hebrew word for "catastrophe" or "total destruction." The word holocaust refers to the Greek word meaning holo (whole) and causto (burned). Those who created the means were to kill all Jews. For many years, Christians in Europe discriminated against Jews. In …

…gassed in Belzec, and about 200,000 in Sobibor. Auschwitz I and II were built. In Auschwitz II, one million Jews died from starvation, disease, and of gassing. In various European countries, teams of SS men were sent to direct the round-ups and deportations of Jews by train to concentration camps and killing centers. Their task was done in stages: First the poor, then the foreign and Jewish refugees, and finally the rest of the Jewish community.