The
Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million
Jews by the Nazi regime during World War 2. In 1933
approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries
of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the
war. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been
killed.
The European Jews were the primary victims of the
Holocaust. But Jews were not the only group singled out
for persecution by Hitler’s Nazi regime. As many as
one-half million Gypsies, at least 250,000 mentally or
physically disabled persons, and more than three million
Soviet prisoners-of-war also fell victim to Nazi genocide.
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