Antisemitism: A Dark History and a Growing Threat: The Holocaust
The Holocaust claimed the lives of over 6 million people- there is no way to calculate the exact number of people murdered by the Nazis during World War II. The vast majority of people killed by the Nazis were Jews, however, Roma, Slavic, and disabled peoples were also murdered at high rates during the Holocaust.
The Destruction of the European Jews by Call Number: D 810 J4 H54 2003 V.1-3Publication Date: 1985The Destruction of the European Jews is widely considered the landmark study of the Holocaust. First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanized further research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies.
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland by Call Number: D 804.3 B77 1998Publication Date: 1998The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
The study of the Holocaust is both emotionally intense and historically complicated. The infographic below is meant to introduce you to the major events of the Holocaust. For more detail, please visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Timeline Overview.
