The Holocaust
Genocide of the European Jews by Nazi Germany and other groups
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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through work in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz, BeĆĆŒec, CheĆmno, Majdanek, SobibĂłr, and Treblinka in occupied Poland.
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