The Holocaust was a horrifying event that took place in Germany in 1939 and lasted until 1945. The word holocaust comes from the greek words "holos" (whole) and "kaustos" (burned), and was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar.
"The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were 'racially superior' and that the Jews, deemed 'inferior', were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. "
-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
(website- http://www.ushmm.org)
"The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were 'racially superior' and that the Jews, deemed 'inferior', were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. "
-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
(website- http://www.ushmm.org)