Understanding the Holocaust

Holocaust survivors displayed endurance and determination as they searched for loved ones, worked to establish new lives, and fought for justice against the Nazis.

Despite the belief that Jews went willingly to their deaths in Nazi gas chambers, many risked everything to help their fellow prisoners.

During the Holocaust, many individuals and groups risked their lives to rescue Jews who had fled from Nazi-occupied territory. This is their story.

At the end of World War II, the Allies decided to put Nazi leaders on trial for their crimes, including the Holocaust. This title discusses some of those cases.

Between 1938 and 1945 the Nazi regime, as part of Hitler's Final Solution, murdered more than 6 million Jews. This title discusses the atrocities committed.

From 1938 to 1945, the Nazi regime hunted down, imprisoned, and killed millions of European Jews but was especially aggressive toward Jewish children.

Hitler implemented ordered the construction of thousands of camps that removed Jews from society, worked them to death, and murdered them in gas chambers.