All you want to know about Holocaust

The Holocaust began on January 30, 1933 when Hitler came to power and technically ended on May 8, 1945. Here are some of the facts about the genocide in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany:

The systematic killing of Jews by the Nazis ended in a death toll of about 6 million Jews. The Final Solution to the Jewish Question, as the Nazis called the genocide, was devised by Hitler himself and carried out by thousands of his officers and soldiers.



Zyklon B is the poisonous gas that was used to kill more than a million people in gas chambers during the Holocaust. The company that created the gas still exists today and produces pest control products.

The Mosque of Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs during World War II.



Oswiecim is a small town of about 40,000 inhabitants in southern Poland. Nowadays, it is visited by half a million people each year, since the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp complex once stood in its vicinity.

The term “holocaust” was first used in 1978 by NBC television network. They originally used it as the title of a miniseries that was a documentary and story about what happened during the Nazi’s tirade.