Holocaust

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crimeAgainstHumanity
genocide
historicalEvent
warCrime
alsoKnownAs Holocaust
surface form: Shoah
characterizedBy bureaucraticOrganization
industrialScaleKilling
systematicStateSponsoredMurder
commemoratedOn InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
coordinatedAt WannseeConference
deathTollEstimate 11000000To17000000TotalVictims
6000000Jews
endDate 1945
followedBy GenocideConvention1948
Nuremberg trials
surface form: NurembergTrials
hasKeyConcept Holocaust self-linksurface differs
surface form: FinalSolutionToTheJewishQuestion
hasKeyDocument WannseeConference
surface form: WannseeProtocol
ideology Nazism
antisemitism
eugenics
racism
socialDarwinism
impact HolocaustEducationWorldwide
GenocideConvention1948
surface form: UNGenocideConvention

creationOfStateOfIsrael
developmentOfInternationalHumanRightsLaw
InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay January27
legalFramework NurembergLaws
legalRecognition crimeAgainstHumanity
liberationEvent LiberationOfAuschwitz
LiberationOfAuschwitz 1945
location Europe
GermanOccupiedEurope
AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: NaziConcentrationCamps

AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: NaziExterminationCamps

ghettos
killingFieldsInEasternEurope
memorializedBy MemorialToTheMurderedJewsOfEurope
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
surface form: UnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseum

YadVashem
method deathMarches
forcedLabor
gasChambers
gasVans
ghettoization
massShootings
medicalExperiments
starvation
notableCamp AuschwitzBirkenau
Belzec
BergenBelsen
Buchenwald
Chelmno
Dachau
Majdanek
Sobibor
Treblinka
opposedBy Allies of World War II
surface form: AlliedPowers

resistanceMovements
partOf World War II
peakKillingPeriodEnd 1945
peakKillingPeriodStart 1941
perpetratedBy Gestapo
Nazi Germany
Nazi Party
SS
plannedBy Adolf Hitler
surface form: AdolfHitler

HeinrichHimmler
WannseeConference
surface form: NaziLeadership

ReinhardHeydrich
precededBy Kristallnacht
Holocaust self-linksurface differs
surface form: NaziPersecutionOfJews
startDate 1933
supportedBy Axis powers
surface form: AxisPowers

localCollaborators
victimGroup JehovahsWitnesses
Jews
LGBTPeople
Poles
Roma
Sinti
Poles
surface form: Slavs

SovietCivilians
SovietPrisonersOfWar
intellectuals
peopleWithDisabilities
politicalOpponents
resistanceMembers

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Stroop Report topic Holocaust
The Reader theme Holocaust
Roald Hoffmann survivorOf Holocaust
Holocaust museums focusesOn Holocaust
Schindlerjuden hasCause Holocaust
Schindlerjuden savedFrom Holocaust
Paul Blobel participatedIn Holocaust
Christian Wirth perpetratorOf Holocaust
Yiddish theater affectedBy Holocaust
Buna-Werke associatedWith Holocaust
SS runes associatedWith Holocaust
Dan Zur commemorates Holocaust
subject surface form: Valley of the Communities
Kritzinger participatedIn Holocaust
subject surface form: Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Otto Ohlendorf participatedIn Holocaust
Monowitz-Buna partOfEvent Holocaust
Polish Jews sufferedEvent Holocaust
Monowice associatedWith Holocaust
Skvyra experiencedEvent Holocaust
this entity surface form: Holocaust during World War II
Museum of Jewish Heritage focusesOn Holocaust
this entity surface form: the Holocaust
Thomas Blatt survivedEvent Holocaust
Lidia Zamenhof victimOf Holocaust
Jürgen Stroop participatedIn Holocaust
Ashkenazi Jews experiencedEvent Holocaust
Leon Feldhendler victimOf Holocaust
Amt IV participatedIn Holocaust
Luc Tuymans theme Holocaust
Holocaust Museum Houston namedAfter Holocaust
this entity surface form: the Holocaust
The Pianist mainSubject Holocaust
Adam Zamenhof causeOfDeath Holocaust
Adam Zamenhof victimOf Holocaust
Josef Oberhauser participatedIn Holocaust
Eichmann in Jerusalem subject Holocaust
Zofia Zamenhof causeOfDeath Holocaust
Felix Nussbaum Haus subject Holocaust
RMfdbO associatedWith Holocaust
this entity surface form: Holocaust in Eastern Europe