About the Holocaust

The infamous entrance to the Auschwitz death camp that reads, "Arbeit Macht Frei" translating to "Work makes one free."

"The word ‘Holocaust’ gets its origins from the Greek, meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Holocaust is now defined as the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

The Holocaust was part of the result of “The Final Solution,” which was Dictator Adolf Hitler’s plan to eliminate Jews, as well as other minorities such as the disabled, beggars, gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses among many others from the country so Germany could create a perfect race. In order to eliminate these groups of people, Nazis would capture them and send them to concentration camps where they would be worked and starved to death, or be gassed upon arrival if they were not considered fit to work.About six million people died during the Holocaust.