Holocaust

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crimeAgainstHumanity genocide historicalEvent warCrime

The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.

Aliases (26)

Holocaust in Poland ×15
Holocaust in Eastern Europe ×5
the Holocaust ×4
Shoah ×3
Holocaust in Europe ×2
Holocaust in Italy ×2
Holocaust in occupied Poland ×2
Holocaust in the Soviet Union ×2
Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories ×2
The Holocaust ×2
Final Solution ×1
Final Solution to the Jewish Question ×1
FinalSolutionToTheJewishQuestion ×1
Holocaust era ×1
Holocaust in Croatia ×1
Holocaust in Hungary ×1
Holocaust in North Africa and other regions under Nazi or Axis control ×1
Holocaust in Slovakia ×1
Holocaust in the Czech lands and Slovakia ×1
Holocaust in the East ×1
Holocaust of the Jewish people in Europe ×1
Holocaust period 1933–1945 ×1
Nazi persecution of Jews ×1
NaziPersecutionOfJews ×1
NaziWarCrimes ×1
murdered Jews of Europe ×1

Statements (88)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	crimeAgainstHumanity → genocide → historicalEvent → warCrime →
alsoKnownAs	Shoah →
characterizedBy	bureaucraticOrganization → industrialScaleKilling → systematicStateSponsoredMurder →
commemoratedOn	InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay →
coordinatedAt	WannseeConference →
deathTollEstimate	11000000To17000000TotalVictims → 6000000Jews →
endDate	1945 →
followedBy	GenocideConvention1948 → NurembergTrials →
hasKeyConcept	FinalSolutionToTheJewishQuestion →
hasKeyDocument	WannseeProtocol →
ideology	Nazism → antisemitism → eugenics → racism → socialDarwinism →
impact	HolocaustEducationWorldwide → UNGenocideConvention → creationOfStateOfIsrael → developmentOfInternationalHumanRightsLaw →
InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay	January27 →
legalFramework	NurembergLaws →
legalRecognition	crimeAgainstHumanity →
liberationEvent	LiberationOfAuschwitz →
LiberationOfAuschwitz	1945 →
location	Europe → GermanOccupiedEurope → NaziConcentrationCamps → NaziExterminationCamps → ghettos → killingFieldsInEasternEurope →
memorializedBy	MemorialToTheMurderedJewsOfEurope → UnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseum → YadVashem →
method	deathMarches → forcedLabor → gasChambers → gasVans → ghettoization → massShootings → medicalExperiments → starvation →
notableCamp	AuschwitzBirkenau → Belzec → BergenBelsen → Buchenwald → Chelmno → Dachau → Majdanek → Sobibor → Treblinka →
opposedBy	AlliedPowers → resistanceMovements →
partOf	World War II →
peakKillingPeriodEnd	1945 →
peakKillingPeriodStart	1941 →
perpetratedBy	Gestapo → Nazi Germany → Nazi Party → SS →
plannedBy	AdolfHitler → HeinrichHimmler → NaziLeadership → ReinhardHeydrich →
precededBy	Kristallnacht → NaziPersecutionOfJews →
startDate	1933 →
supportedBy	AxisPowers → localCollaborators →
victimGroup	JehovahsWitnesses → Jews → LGBTPeople → Poles → Roma → Sinti → Slavs → SovietCivilians → SovietPrisonersOfWar → intellectuals → peopleWithDisabilities → politicalOpponents → resistanceMembers →

Referenced by (224)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aktion T4 → Auschwitz death marches → Auschwitz-Birkenau ("Final Solution") → Bergen-Belsen ("The Holocaust") → Białystok Ghetto ("Holocaust in Poland") → Chełmno extermination camp ("Holocaust in Poland") → Endlösung der Judenfrage → Final Solution → Kraków Ghetto ("Holocaust in Poland") → Kraków Ghetto → Lublin Ghetto ("Holocaust in Poland") → Operation Reinhard → Plaszow concentration camp ("Holocaust in Poland") → Porajmos → Radom Ghetto ("Holocaust in Poland") → Rumbula massacre ("Holocaust in Eastern Europe") → Samudaripen → Theresienstadt concentration camp ("the Holocaust") → Wannsee Conference ("Holocaust in Europe") → Warsaw Ghetto → Warsaw Ghetto Uprising →	partOf
Adolf Eichmann → Franz Rademacher → Franz Stangl → Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger → Gestapo → Heinrich Gley → Irmfried Eberl → Josef Mengele → Kurt Franz → Lorenz Hackenholt → Martin Luther (Nazi official) → Otto Hofmann → Otto Ohlendorf → Paul Blobel → Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories ("Holocaust in the Soviet Union") → Rudolf Höss → Rudolf Lange → SS Main Economic and Administrative Office →	participatedIn
Buchenwald Trial → Eastern Front (World War II) ("Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories") → GeneralplanOstPolicies → German AB-Aktion in Poland ("Holocaust in Poland") → Porajmos → RuSHA Trial → United Nations General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) → Wannsee Conference → Wannsee Conference ("Final Solution to the Jewish Question") → Zyklon B →	relatedTo
Buna-Werke → Flag of Nazi Germany → Lebensraum → Monowice → Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery ("Holocaust in Poland") → Operation Barbarossa ("Holocaust in the East") → Reich Security Main Office complex → SS runes → Villa Marlier →	associatedWith
Artifacts Collection → Hall of Names → Laura subcamp → Mount of Remembrance → Pages of Testimony ("Shoah") → Reichsführer-SS → SS Planning Office ("Holocaust in Eastern Europe") → Star of David →	associatedWithEvent
Bruno Bettelheim → Eberhard Schöngarth → Hans Frank ("Holocaust in Poland") → Josef Bühler → Jozef Tiso ("Holocaust in Slovakia") → Ludwig Fischer → Peter van Pels → Primo Levi →	participantIn
Auschwitz III-Monowitz → Berga an der Elster subcamp → District of Galicia ("Holocaust in Eastern Europe") → Konzentrationslager Ettersberg → Monowitz-Buna → Ohrdruf subcamp → Treblinka ("The Holocaust") →	partOfEvent
Edith Frank → Poles → Radom Ghetto → Regina Jonas → Roma → SovietPrisonersOfWar ("NaziWarCrimes") → Łódź Ghetto Jews →	victimOf
Czech Jews → Hermann van Pels → Hermann van Pels ("Nazi persecution of Jews") → Lublin Ghetto → Plaszow concentration camp → Reinhard program authorities ("Holocaust in Poland") →	historicalEvent
If Not Now, When? → If This Is a Man → Night → Survival in Auschwitz → The Diary of Anne Frank → The Drowned and the Saved →	mainSubject
Gustloff-Werk II subcamp → Irmfried Eberl ("Holocaust era") → Regina Jonas → War Refugee Board → Żegota ("Holocaust in Poland") →	historicalPeriod
German Ordnungspolizei → Heer → SS → Waffen-SS → Walther von Reichenau ("Holocaust in the Soviet Union") →	involvedIn
Adolf Hitler → Nazi Party ("the Holocaust") → Reich government → Schutzstaffel →	responsibleFor
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) → Valley of the Communities → Yom HaShoah →	commemorates
Anne Frank Stichting → Holocaust museums → Holocaust remembrance →	focusesOn
Mendel Nachmanovich → Reichstag of Nazi Germany → Righteous Among the Nations →	historicalContext
Heinrich Himmler → Nazi Germany → Third Reich →	perpetrated
Christian Wirth → Josef Bühler ("Holocaust in Poland") → Reinhard Heydrich →	perpetratorOf
IG Farben Trial → Koło → Nazi camp system →	relatedEvent
Man's Search for Meaning → Primo Levi's Auschwitz trilogy → The Periodic Table →	subject
Exhibitions Pavilion → Sophie's Choice → The Reader →	theme
Babi Yar massacre → Dachau concentration camp → Majdanek →	timePeriod
Einsatzgruppen ("Holocaust in Eastern Europe") → SS Planning Office →	activeDuring
Blue Police ("Holocaust in occupied Poland") → Foreign Office of Nazi Germany →	complicitIn
Independent State of Croatia ("Holocaust in Croatia") → Nazism →	implementedPolicy
General Government ("Holocaust in Poland") → Warsaw District ("Holocaust in occupied Poland") →	notableEvent
Italian Jews ("Holocaust in Italy") → Italkim →	persecutedDuring
Cabinet of Adolf Hitler → German-occupied Europe ("Holocaust in Europe") →	significantEvent
Elie Wiesel → Imre Kertész →	subjectOf
Jules Schelvis → Leo Baeck →	survived
Publications Department (Yad Vashem) → Stroop Report →	topic
SS units →	activeIn
Yiddish theater →	affectedBy
Holocaust ("Shoah") →	alsoKnownAs
Yad Vashem Commission for the Designation of the Righteous →	appliesToEvent
Children’s Memorial →	associatedEvent
Unternehmen Barbarossa ("Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories") →	associatedWithWarCrimes
Israeli Declaration of Independence ("Holocaust of the Jewish people in Europe") →	basisIn
Belzec ("Holocaust in Poland") →	category
Nazism →	causedEvent
Tilly Grosser →	causeOfDeath
German occupation of Poland ("Holocaust in Poland") →	characterizedBy
Hall of Remembrance →	commemoratesEvent
Łódź Ghetto →	connectedToEvent
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide →	coversEvent
Yiddish →	declineCausedBy
MemorialToTheMurderedJewsOfEurope ("murdered Jews of Europe") →	dedicatedTo
Maus →	depicts
Margot Frank →	diedDuring
German occupation of Czechoslovakia ("Holocaust in the Czech lands and Slovakia") →	effect
Mordechai Anielewicz →	era
Hungary in World War II ("Holocaust in Hungary") →	experienced
Romaniote Jews →	experiencedEvent
Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora →	experiencedHistoricalEvent
Italian Racial Laws ("Holocaust in Italy") →	followedBy
creationOfStateOfIsrael →	followedEvent
Schindlerjuden →	hasCause
Jews →	hasHistoricalEvent
Leipzig-Thekla subcamp →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Jewish American literature →	hasImportantHistoricalContext
Holocaust ("FinalSolutionToTheJewishQuestion") →	hasKeyConcept
Holocaust in visual arts →	hasMainSubject
World War II →	hasPart
Degesch →	historicalAssociation
Nazi war crimes →	includes
If Not Now, When? ("Holocaust in Eastern Europe") →	isAboutEvent
Jewish diaspora →	isRelatedTo
Executive Order 9417 →	issuedDuring
NaziRacialPolicy →	justified
Roma →	killedDuring
Nuremberg Laws →	legalBasisFor
LebensraumPolicy →	linkedTo
Holocaust studies →	mainFocus
The Trial of God ("the Holocaust") →	mainTheme
United States Holocaust Memorial Council →	namedAfter
Zyklon B →	notableUse
Alexander Pechersky →	opposedTo
Wartheland →	policyImplemented
Holocaust ("NaziPersecutionOfJews") →	precededBy
Der Stürmer →	propagandaFor
Schindlerjuden →	savedFrom
Schindler's List →	setDuring
Night →	settingPeriod
Contemporary Judaism →	shapedBy
Holocaust studies ("Holocaust in North Africa and other regions under Nazi or Axis control") →	studies
Polish Jews →	sufferedEvent
Czech Jews →	sufferedMassMurderIn
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein →	survivedEvent
Roald Hoffmann →	survivorOf
Auschwitz-Birkenau →	symbolOf
HolocaustEducationWorldwide ("Holocaust period 1933–1945") →	timeFocus
Pages of Testimony →	timePeriodDocumented
Valley of the Communities ("Shoah") →	topicalConcept
Daddy (poem) ("the Holocaust") →	usesImageryOf
Axis powers →	warCrimeResponsibility
Anne Frank →	wasInvolvedIn