The Holocaust

What you’ll learn

• The Holocaust was the systematic murder of six million Jews, roughly two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population, by Nazi Germany
• The Nazis used propaganda, laws, and violence to gradually escalate persecution before implementing the "Final Solution"
• Antisemitism, the hatred of Jewish people, was the driving ideology behind the Holocaust
• 1.5 million children were among the victims, and death camps like Auschwitz became factories of murder
• Brave individuals like Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg risked everything to save Jewish lives
• The Nuremberg Trials established that individuals can be held accountable for crimes against humanity