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WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY HOLOCAST

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"Holocaust" and "Shoah" redirect here. For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation).The HolocaustPart of World War IIHungarian Jews being selected by Nazis to be sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz AlbumMay/June 1944[1]LocationNazi Germany and German-occupied territoriesDate1941–45TargetEuropean Jews - broader usage of the term "Holocaust" includes victims of other Nazi crimes.[2]Attack typeGenocide, ethnic cleansing,deportation, mass murderDeaths6,000,000[3]–11,000,000[4]PerpetratorsNazi Germany and its alliesNumber of participants200,000Part of a series onThe HolocaustResponsibility[show]Early policies[show]Victims[show]Ghettos[show]Atrocities[show]Camps[show]Resistance[show]Allied response[show]Aftermath[show]Lists[show]Resources[show]Remembrance[show]vte

The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"),[5] also known as the Shoah(Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.[6] The victims included 1.5 million children[7] and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe.[8] Some definitions of the Holocaust include the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to about 11 million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany, German-occupied territories[9] and territories held by allies of Nazi Germany.