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- The murder of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Generically,
any great loss of human life or any almost total destruction, especially by fire.
- Term devised in the late 1950's to describe the Nazi program of the wholesale physical annihilation of European Jewry.
Connotes an unprecedented phenomenon of human destruction. By the end of World War II, it was estimated that some 6 million
Jews had perished as a result of the systematic killing program of the Nazis.
- The systematic Nazi destruction of European Jewry which began in 1933 when Adolph Hitler was appointed
Chancellor of Germany. This tragic event reduced the world's Jewish population by over one third.
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A few questions that we will answer on this
site are:
1. What happened during the holocaust?
2. Why do people deny the existence of the
holocaust?
3. What are these peoples view on what happened?
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Sources:
Grobman, Alex and Shermer, Michael. Denying History. Los Angeles, California.
2000 University of California Press
Lipstadt, Deborah E. Denying the Holocaust. The
Free Press. New York, N.Y. 1993
Stern, Kenneth S. Holocaust Denial. 1993 The American
Jewish Committee
This site was created by a Rutgers Univeristy Student for an Anti-Semitic
and Holocaust Class. If you have any questions feel free to email me at tadros@camden.rutgers.edu
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