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The Holocaust (1933-1945) is the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators. Explore more content related to the perpetrators and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities.

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Jews carrying their possessions during deportation to the Chelmno killing center. [LCID: 10047]
Article
An Overview of the Holocaust: Topics to Teach
Germans in front of Jewish-owned department store in Berlin, anti-Jewish boycott. Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933.
Timeline Event
Anti-Jewish Boycott
Jewish women and girls wearing the compulsory yellow badge. [LCID: 78590]
Article
Antisemitism and the Holocaust
Media Essay
Antisemitism - ID Card/Oral History
Women group together in a prisoner barracks. Some of the women are laying on the floor, while others are laying on the wooden bunk beds. All of them are wearing heavy outwear or wrapped in blankets.
Article
Auschwitz
A grainy black and white aerial photo of several rows of long barracks in the snow.
Timeline Event
Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp Established
Lilly Appelbaum Malnik [LCID: lmd0052f]
Timeline Event
Death Marches from Auschwitz
Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz presents evidence during the Einsatzgruppen Trial. [LCID: 09918]
Article
How Many People did the Nazis Murder?
Typed deportation list with handwritten numbers in front of each name.
Media Essay
Documenting the Holocaust: Examples of Documents
Photograph of a field with a camp in the background featuring low buildings and a factory with a tall thin smokestack.
Timeline Event
Establishment of Dachau Camp
Jews assembled in the Siedlce ghetto during deportation to the Treblinka camp, forced to march toward the railway station. [LCID: 50429]
Article
"Final Solution": Overview
Personal effects taken from the prisoners at Auschwitz before they were taken to the gas chamber. [LCID: 14877]
Article
Nazi Gas Chambers
Media Essay
Geography of the Holocaust
Jews carrying bundles of possessions before their deportation from the Kovno ghetto. [LCID: 10687]
Article
What Were Ghettos During the Holocaust?
Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg greet each other surrounded by a crowd of people. The sepia toned postcard has white German text in the top left corner that reads ‘Reichspräsident von Hindenburg und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler begrüßen sich am 21.3.33 in Potsdam.’
Timeline Event
Adolf Hitler is Appointed Chancellor
Adolf Hitler stands with an SA unit during a Nazi parade in Weimar [LCID: 02286]
Article
Hitler Comes to Power

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