Worldwar+II

THE HOLOCAUST  -The word holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "Sacrifice by fire". Hebrew term for Holocaust is Shoah meaning "Castastrophe" - The holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. -The Nazi who came into power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior", were an alien threat to the so- called German racial community ( Yahil, Leni)