The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provides a powerful lesson in the fragility of freedom, the myth of progress, and the need for vigilance in preserving democratic values.
Introduction to the Holocaust can be found here.
The Holocaust Museum Houston's mission is to educate students and the public about the dangers of prejudice and hatred in society. The Museum has an excellent list of vocabulary terms related to the Holocaust.
The Holocaust Explained is a website which aims to answer common questions about how the Nazis were able to plan and carry out the mass murder of over six million Jews, and millions of non-Jews.