History of Holocaust
The Holocaust called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew refers to the period from January 30, 1933 when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews. These deaths represented two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of all world Jewry.
Rather, they were the victims of Germany's deliberate and systematic attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe, a plan Hitler called the “Final Solution”.
During the the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived racial inferiority "Gypsies", the disabled, and some of the Poles, Russians, and others. Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.
THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST
In the final of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches”, in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of the prisoners. On May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. For the western Allies, World War 2 officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8, while Soviet forces announced the Victory Day on May 9, 1945.
