what is the holocaust??

Answer 1

High volume, state-sponsored extermination of European Jewry, from January 1942 to November 1944.

'42 corresponding to the date of the Wansee Conference were the top SS and Nazis bureaucrats found the 'Final solution to the Jewish Question."

'44 corresponding to the date Himmler gave orders to destroy the crematoria in the death camps as the Red Army approached from the east.

Sure there were jewish deaths before and after those dates, but the high-volume was not there, which most strictly speaking was the 'holocaust' people refer to.....

Answer 2

Go to your principal the next school day you have. If you are above seventh grade, tell your principal that you don't know what the holocaust is and tell your principal that every single teacher who you have had up to this point needs to be fired. Especially those who were your "social studies" teachers.

Then tell your parents to stop letting you play video games and playing on AIM and to make you read some real books and watch some educational stuff.

for anyone in the world above the age of 12 to not know what the holocaust means that the educational system of the area you live in has let you and the rest of the world down.

Never forget. And the next time you vote against school taxes, remember that this is what you get when the best and brightest are discouraged from teaching because a 30K/year job can't support a family.

Answer 3

from http://library.advanced.org/12663/summary/whatframe.html:

The Holocaust is generally regarded as the systematic slaughter of not only 6 million Jews, (two-thirds of the total European Jewish population), the primary victims, but also 5 million others, approximately 11 million individuals wiped off the Earth by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It is hard to grasp the idea that it isn't just 11 million deaths, but 11 million people whose lives were cut off because of racism and hate, all in a period of 11 years (1933-1945). There are actually two main phases to the Holocaust, the period between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi rise, and the period between 1939 and 1945, the period of war, or more specifically, World War II. The first concentration camp opened in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power, and continued to run until the end of the war and the Third Reich: May 8, 1945.

The idea that the Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended is a difficult concept, but this is an important point, and one this site hopes to help bring across. The Holocaust was the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into the "Aryan" ideal.

The unfortunate truth is that the Holocaust is a subject whose gravity is obvious, but it is easy to become almost numb to it. As Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and famous Holocaust survivor has said, "the essense of this tragedy is that it can never be fully conveyed."

look here:
http://www.ushmm.org/

Answer 4

The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Keeping in mind, though, that other groups...ie the gypsies, retarded and handicapped people, were also exterminated.
Holocaust, in general, means a massive destruction of life, great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire.
In a way, the Black Death, or the Plague in the 1300's, was a type of holocasut, though a natural one.

Answer 5

The holocaust is one of the most tragic and horrible events in human history. During the second world war 1939-1945 Germany declared war on almost every country in the world and managed to take over most of Europe. While this was happening the German government, led by Chancellor Adolf Hitler, decided to try to make the German people stronger and healthier, make there race pure. They decided that a true German was something called an arian, with blue eyes and blond hair. So to purify their race they set about a scheme to destroy everyone who wasn't a pure German. Anyone with physical, mental defects or foreigners were rounded up and sent to special camps were they were operated on so they would not be able to have children and very often they were killed. The largest population to be rounded up and sent to camps were the Jews. Parents and children, young and old were rounded up. First they were forced to live in isolated and rundown parts of the cities called ghettoes. They had to wear yellow stars on their clothes to show they were Jews. Eventually thousands and thousands of jews were rounded up and put on cattle trains. They were transported to camps were they were treated like slaves, beaten, torcherd and experimented on. They were barely fed and many died of starvation while others were simply shot. Germany decided eventually to kill all Jews in Europe and this was called the final solution. They invented gas champers. People getting off the trains to go to the camps were selected either to go to work in the camp or to go to the gas chambers. Young children, elderly, pregnant women and people that looked as if they wouldn't be able to work were stripped of their clothes and sent for what they thought was a shower, but these were really gas chambers. Many thousands were killed this way. The holocaust is remembered by Jewish people particularly for the vast creulty experienced at the hands of the Germans. However, anyone that opposed Germany was sent to the concentration camps, including catholic priests who protested against the rounding up of the jews. Holocaust day is done in the memory of the thousands of inoccent people that died and suffered in this way.

Answer 6

The Holocaust, also known as Ha-Shoah is the term generally used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.
The word was derived :"completely (holos) burnt (kaustos)" sacrificial offering to a god.
words associated when i hear the word:genocide, calamity,killing..

Answer 7

A Holocaust is a fire.
It was also the genocide of Jews in Europe and parts of Asia led by a German dictator named Hitler.
It is related to the Pogrom and Spanish Inquisition.

Answer 8

The holocaust was when the leader of Germany had the german armed forces going around Germany and putting Jewish people in camp like jails. Then when guards of the camps were leading the Jewish people into the showers where the Jewish people were gassed and killed.

Answer 9

Term generally used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.

Answer 10

The holocaust was the murder of 6million Jews, Gypsies, insane people and criminals by Hitler and his SS henchmen.