What is "The Holocaust" ?

Answer 1

A fraud perpetuated by the zionists to guilt money out of the rest of the world. When viewed with logic and science the claims made are ridiculous and under historical review fall apart like tissue paper. In most of Europe even questioning the holocaust will get you jail time, if it is a historic truth one should be allowed to question the claims made against facts.
facts like the soviet union built the "gas chamber" in Auschwitz.(from declassified soviet and Polish documents), Facts like there is no forensic evidence of cyanide gas in the "gas chambers" ( cyanide bonds with iron and is almost impossible to remove from it), Facts like the statements given at Nuremberg by inmates are impossible( after gassing the victims we vented the chamber for five minutes and would empty the bodies while smoking. Gas chambers have to be vented for hours before they are safe to enter and cyanide fumes are highly explosive), facts like where did six million bodies go? even with today's advances in cremation it takes approx. twelve hours to burn it down to ash and there are still bone fragments and teeth. The list of facts go on and on. while the response is always the same your an anti-semite and a racist it is based on emotion not facts.

Answer 2

What are they teaching kids in schools these days? Didn't they teach you about this? The Holocaust took place during the late 1930s and early 1940s where Hitler and his thug cohorts exterminated six million Jews and probably another 6 million others during W.W. II. It was humanity at its worse.

I would have to say may of the answers provided here give very good bits and pieces of the Holocaust. You need to learn about the Holocaust because many of the same things are happening in this world today (i.e., Somalia).

Answer 3

r u kidding!!!???

go google it!


The Holocaust (from the Greek holókauston from olon "completely" and kauston "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), Churben (Yiddish: חורבן), 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 regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.[2]

Other groups were persecuted and killed by the regime, including the Roma, Soviet POWs, disabled people, gay men, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic Poles, and political prisoners.[3][4] Many scholars do not include these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, defining it as the genocide of the Jews,[5] or what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Taking into account all the victims of Nazi persecution, the death toll rises considerably: estimates generally place the total number of victims at nine to 11 million.[6

Answer 4

"The Holocaust" (meaning great fire) is the term applied to the entire experience of Internment/Concentration camps erected and run by the Nazis to hold/torture and kill Jews, Catholics, Gays, Gypsies, etc.
The Holocaust took place during the reign of terror by the Nazi party over Europe during the time of World War II and slightly before.
In spite of clear viewable evidence of this occurrence, and thousands of eye-witness reports, there are still many people who choose to believe that "the Holocaust" never happened. (Added later: See Alhazred below as an example of non-believers)

Answer 5

Are you serious? It was the killing of millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler, the idiot thougt he could make a perfect race by puting them all in death camps and tricking them into gas chambers where he killed thousands of innocents at a time with no regard for women or children. It is one of the many reasons The United States stands for freedom and republic/democratic government so no one dictator or king can terrify the whole world.

Answer 6

I am a Holocaust Survivor who manages the worldwide Yahoo! group:[e-mail] You ought to check it out and join if you are interested in knowing about it.

Answer 7

The "final solution to the Jewish Question" occurred somewhere in the neighborhood of Jan 1942 to Nov 44.

Answer 8

the holoacast is when hitler sent all of the jews to camps where the majoity of them died. read the book night. that book will bring tears to your eyes. I really can't explain what it is but have you ever heard of the holoacast musiem in D.C? you shoul vist it. go on google . you will get more infomation about it.

Answer 9

When the NAZI's persecuted and contributed to mass genocide of the jews. It consisted of many concentration and working camps.

Answer 10

Holocaust- name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. Although anti-Semitism in Europe has a long history, persecution of German Jews began with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Jews were disenfranchised, then terrorized in anti-Jewish riots (such as Kristallnacht), forced into the ghettos, their property seized, and finally were sent to concentration camps. After the outbreak of World War II, Hitler established death camps to secretly implement what he called "the final solution of the Jewish question." Extermination squads were also sent to the fronts: In one operation alone, over 30,000 Jews were killed at Babi Yar, outside Kiev. After 450,000 Jews were sent to death camps from the Warsaw Ghetto, news of their fate led the last 60,000 to rebel (1943), fighting until they were killed, captured, or escaped to join the resistance. The main Jewish resistance was spiritual: observing their religion and refraining from suicide, while Zionists evacuated some to Palestine. By the end of the war 6 million Jews had been systematically murdered. The Allies refused rescue attempts and American Jews were warned against attempting them. While the European churches were silent, some clergy and individual non-Jews saved many. The Danes sent most Danish Jews to Sweden in private boats while under German occupation.

After the war Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes at Nuremburg, and West Germany later adopted (1953) the Federal Compensation Law, under which billions of dollars were paid to those who survived Nazi persecution. In the mid-1990s a number of suits were filed against Swiss banks that held accounts belonging to Holocaust victims but had denied the fact and failed to restore the money. A settlement reached in 1998 established a $1.25 billion fund to be used to compensate those who can document their claims and, more generally, Holocaust survivors, the latter as restitution for undocumented accounts and for Swiss profits on Nazi accounts involving Holocaust victims' property. In 1998 the Roman Catholic Church issued a document acknowledging Catholic complicity in the long-standing European anti-Semitism that was background to the Holocaust. Under the terms of an agreement signed in 2000 by the United States and Germany, a $5 billion fund was established by the German government and German industry to compensate those who were slave or forced laborers or who suffered a variety of other losses under the Nazi regime.

The destruction of European Jewry has demanded a reevaluation by Jews the world over. The renascent Jewish community in the state of Israel, itself largely a byproduct of the Holocaust, now serves as a focal point for much of this energy. A vast literature consisting of histories, diaries, memoirs, poetry, novels, and prayers has emerged in an effort to understand the Holocaust in terms of its religious and secular implications. The secular materials attempt to explain how it happened and the reactions of the victims; some have suggested that an underlying and pervasive anti-Semitism in Germany was fueled by a deep and complete despair combined with a corrosive and unacknowleged sense of worthlessness that had been created by crushing and humiliating hardships and the disintegration of the Weimar Republic. The religious materials focus on the problem of whether one can still speak in traditional Jewish terms of a God, active in history, who rewards the righteous and who maintains a unique relationship with the Jewish people. Museums and memorials have been established in a number of cities worldwide to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.