We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
CHAPTER 3: Holocaust and Partition: The Final Solutions.
- Authors
Choksi, Vidushi B.
- Abstract
The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds perished. In particular, over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, as were approximately two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide of millions of people in other groups, including Romani (more commonly known in English by the exonym "Gypsies"), Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents, which occurred regardless of whether they were of German or non-German ethnic origin. Using this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people. Holocaust refers to the period of twelve years from 1933 until 1945, that European Jews were hunted, persecuted, slaughtered, tortured and massacred by the German Nazi Party and by their various collaborators. The Holocaust was, is and will forever be, one of the most shocking examples of human degradation ever to darken the face of the earth.
- Subjects
HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; GENOCIDE; HITLER, Adolf, 1889-1945; EUROPEAN Jews; NAZIS; HOLOCAUST victims; NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHE Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 11, p55
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article