Holocaust

====The Holocaust, also called “Ha-Shoah” in Hebrew, is an infamous event that took place from 1933 to 1945 and killed about 11 million people. Six million of them were Jewish. 250,000-500,000 were Roma, otherwise known as Gypsies. Other than the Jews, Nazis aimed for homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled, anybody who resisted them, and Roma. About two thirds of all Jews in Europe were wiped out by the Nazis.==== ====When the persecution began, it didn’t physically hurt people. Although Jewish businesses were taken away, they were still healthy. As years passed, more laws were made. Jews were forbidden to do public activities such as go to a park or get hired for a civil service job. On the nights of November 9th and 10th of 1938, known as Crystal Night or Kristillnacht, things changed. Nazis harmed Jews and their property. Many Jewish people were shipped to concentration camps that evening. A year later, World War II began.==== ====The Jewish were forced out of their homes and into the ghettos, which are small areas with terrible living conditions. At one point in time it was declared that the ghettos will trap the Jews. Many of them were transported to concentration camps. The remaining Jews were to be liquidized.====