The Holocaust 1933-1945 Nearly six million Jews were killed and murdered "The Holocaust." The word 'holocaust' means, a great raging fire that consumes in it's path all that lives. In the years between 1933 and 1945, the Jews of Europe were marked for total annihilation. The Germans under Adolf Hitler’s command believed that the Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehova’s Witneses, Mentally Retarded, and anyone who did not believe in Nazism were the cause of all the …showed first 75 words of 1214 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1214 total…Fathers, Sisters, Brothers, Aunts, Uncles, cousins gone. Most survivors watched their familys die in front of them. Some had gone crazy because of what they had seen. Some died imidiatly after because of malnutrition, sickeness that no doctor could help. But some lived on. The flashbacks and dreams must be terrible. But they lived. And do live. And will live. The Holocaust was one of the darkest times in the history of the 20th century.