when did the holocaust end?

Answer 1

November 1944.....the date coincided with Himmler's orders to destroy the crematoria and other evidence in the Polish death camps as the Red Army approached from the east. While many Jews perished after that date, the high volume genocide known as the holocaust was at an end.....

Of course, one could argue that the end came in April 1945 with the surrender of Germany or after liberation of some of the concentration camps by the western allies, the HIGH VOLUME genocide ended in Nov.1944. To me, holocaust is synomous with the high volume genocide. If you take a more expansive view of that term, then use the dates mentioned above for the liberation of the concentration camps, my view is a little more narrower...focusing on the end of the death camps with its gassing and burning of victims...

Answer 2

The Holocaust ended when the Allied troops started their invaison of Western Europe. The Nazis scrambled their prisoners (the Jews) to camps closer to the center of Poland. When the Allied forces entered the camps, it was near the end of 1945. This also ended the war in Europe. The war in the Pacific theatre still would rage on until the dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Answer 3

The German holocaust ended in April of 1945.

Answer 4

The following dates and events brought an end to the holocaust


In 1945 - As the Allies advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas.

Jan 6, 1945 - Soviets liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.

Jan 14, 1945 - Invasion of eastern Germany by Soviet troops.

Jan 17, 1945 - Liberation of Warsaw by the Soviets.

Jan 18, 1945 - Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.

Jan 27, 1945 - Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.

April 4, 1945 - Ohrdruf camp is liberated, later visited by General Eisenhower.

April 10, 1945 - Allies liberate Buchenwald.

April 15, 1945 - Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British, who report "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth."

April 23, 1945 - Berlin reached by Soviet troops.

April 29, 1945 - U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.

April 30, 1945 - Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.

April 30, 1945 - Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.

May 2, 1945 - Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross.

May 5, 1945 - Mauthausen liberated.

May 7, 1945 - Unconditional German surrender signed by Gen. Jodl at Reims.

May 9, 1945 - Hermann Göring captured by members of U.S. 7th Army.

May 23, 1945 - SS Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide.

Nov 20, 1945 - Opening of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.

Answer 5

1945

Answer 6

which one?
frijoler is right. Though we tend to limit the holocaust to what happened in Europe in the 1940's, holocausts were going on before and are still continuing.

Answer 7

When the Nazi's surrendered, April 30, 1945.

Answer 8

it still hasnt ended, they tell u it did but people are still dying in great numbers all over the world for stupid people that think they own the earth, and think they are the superior race (Bush). did u know there was a holocaust in mexico? yeah it started in 1492 when f*cking chris columbus came to f*ck things up.

Answer 9

I believe it was 1945. World War II ended in 1945 as well. The war against Japan was much faster, only took months, compared to vs Gernany and Italy.

Answer 10

End? In your terms, probably in 1945 at the close of WW 2