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Holocaust

The Holocaust, during which some 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other people were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany during World War II, was one of the most horrific war crimes ever committed.

Jewish business destroyed during Kristallnacht, 1938

Kristallnacht

299918 68: A Group Of Women Cry In Yugoslavia. Slobodan Milosevic Came To Power Instituting Serbian Nationalism And Encouraging The Policy Of Ethnic Cleansing And Enforced The Expulsion Of Bosnian Muslims From The Country. (Photo By Malcolm Linton/Getty Images)

Ethnic Cleansing

Jews wearing Star of David badges, Lodz Ghetto, Poland, World War II, 1940-1944. The Nazis forced Jews into over-crowded ghettos from which thousands were deported to the death camps.

Anti-Semitism

The Liberators: The Emotional Reunion of a Holocaust Survivor and the G.I. Who Freed Him

Watch the Emotional Reunion of a Concentration Camp Survivor and One of His Liberators

Genocide

A new memorial to Raoul Wallenberg stands outside the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm on August 16, 2012. The memorial consists of a bench made of black diabase with a briefcase of bronze placed diagonally on top. The briefcase has a text about Raoul Wallenberg engraved on its side.AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/GettyImages)

Raoul Wallenberg

Videos

History Shorts: The Moment Behind International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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History Shorts: The Moment Behind International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Auschwitz
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Auschwitz