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One of history’s darkest chapters, the Holocaust was the systematic killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939–45).
In total, six million Jews died in the Holocaust. This number is calculated based on Nazi German documents and prewar and postwar demographic data. How many non-Jewish people did the Nazis and their allies murder between 1933 and 1945?
The Holocaust 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 murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...
While no master list of those who perished in the Holocaust exists anywhere in the world, since the 1940s, scholars, governmental agencies and Jewish organizations have consistently estimated the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis at around six million.
It resulted in the deaths of approximately two thirds of all Jews in Europe, and one third of the world's Jewish population. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, authorities...
Number of Deaths. Jews: 6 million.
/ The War. / The Holocaust. Article. The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s deliberate, organized, state-sponsored persecution and genocide of European Jews. During the war, the Nazi regime and their collaborators systematically murdered over six million Jewish people. May 8, 2024.
