While Holocaust from Greek, meaning whole burnt offering is widely used internationally, Shoah is often preferred by Jewish people and in Israel. This preference stems from a desire to emphasize the event as a unique, unprecedented disaster for the Jewish people, and to avoid the religious connotation of sacrifice that the word holocaust carries. The Nazi extermination of the Jews was a brutal act of genocide, not a religious offering. The Holocaust was the genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II 1933-1945
Driven by antisemitic ideology, the Nazis systematically persecuted Jews through:
- Legal discrimination and propaganda
- Forced ghettoization
- Mass shootings, Einsatzgruppen
- Industrialized murder in extermination camps (like Auschwitz-Birkenau) using gas chambers
Millions of others were also persecuted and murdered. The Holocaust stands as a stark warning against hatred and genocide.Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most infamous Nazi concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland during WWII.
- Purpose: Established in 1940, it became the primary site for the Final Solution, the systematic murder of European Jews.
- Scale of Murder: Over 1.1 million people were murdered here, approximately 1 million of whom were Jews, primarily in large-scale gas chambers using Zyklon B. Other victims included Poles, Roma, and Soviet POWs.
- Components: The complex included:
- Auschwitz I: The original concentration camp
- Auschwitz II-Birkenau: The main extermination camp with gas chambers and crematoria
- Auschwitz III-Monowitz: A forced labor camp
- Horrors: Prisoners faced brutal forced labor, starvation, disease, and horrific medical experiments
- Liberation: Liberated by the Soviet Army on January 27, 1945
- Legacy: Today, it stands as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, serving as a stark reminder of the Holocaust and a warning against genocide
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