Summary.
Anti semitism, the hatred towards Jewish people because of reasons connected to their heritage. Anti semitism has been around for some time, but was most evident during Hitlers time in power in Germany. The Holocaust was Hitler solution to the "Jewish Problem" and consisted of mass extermination.
- Antisemitism: the suspicion or hate towards those of Jewish decent
- Antisemitism can be manifested in many ways such as discrimination
- In extremes antisemitism can be expressed in violent attacks on an individual or group by a mob
- The Holocaust also, known as The Shoah in Hebrew, was the eradication of approximately 6 million European Jews
- It took place during World War II
- The genocide of the Jews was a state supported extermination led by Adolf Hitler
- People with disabilities, Homosexuals, Jehovas Witnesses, and other opposing religions were also targeted
- Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease
- The Third Reich required Jews and Romani to be confined in overcrowded ghettos
- They were then transported by freight train to extermination camps
- If they survived the journey the majority were systematically killed in gas chambers