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The Holocaust birthplace
The Holocaust was a Nazi German initiative that took place throughout German- and Axis-controlled Europe. It affected nearly all of Europe’s Jewish population, which in 1933 numbered 9 million people. -
Germany persecute the Jewish people
In Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators implemented a wide range of anti-Jewish policies and measures. Millions of people were persecuted simply because they were identified as Jewish. -
German Institutions, Organizations, and Individuals
Nazi leaders relied on many German institutions and organizations to help them carry out the Holocaust. The Members of Nazi organizations initiated and carried out many anti-Jewish actions before and during World War II. -
German Authorities to create the ghettos
The Ghettos were areas of cities or towns where German occupiers forced Jews to live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. German authorities often enclosed these areas by building walls or other barriers. They prevented Jews from leaving without permission. -
The mass shooting
The Nazi German regime perpetrated mass shootings of civilians on a scale never seen before. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. , German units began to carry out mass shootings of local Jews. -
Killing Centers
In late 1941, the Nazi regime began building specially designed, stationary killing centers in German-occupied Poland. In the Nazi Germany operated five killing centers: Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. -
Liquidating of the Ghettos
In 1941–1942, Germans and their allies and collaborators murdered ghetto residents en masse and dissolved ghetto administrative structures. The majority of Jews in the ghettos were murdered either in mass shootings at nearby killing sites or after deportation to killing centers -
LIBERATION OF NAZI CAMPS
As Allied and Soviet troops moved across Europe against Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945, they encountered concentration camps, mass graves, and other sites of Nazi crimes. The unspeakable conditions the liberators confronted shed light on the full scope of Nazi horrors.
