Portal:Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah, was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Approximately two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust perished. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide of millions of people in other groups, including Romani (more commonly known in English by the exonym "Gypsies"), Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents, which occurred regardless of whether they were of German or non-German ethnic origin. Using this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people.
Works[edit]
- Wannsee Protocol (20 January 1942)
- Speech Condemning Massacre of the Jews (9 December 1942)
- Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations Against Extermination of the Jews (17 December 1942)
- Receipt of the transportation costs that Bulgarian state paid to transport 4137 Jewish citizens from Macedonia to their death in Treblinka (13 October 1945)
- A Letter from The International Association of Genocide Scholars (13 June 2005, re. the Armenian genocide)
Laws[edit]
- Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (United States)
- Declaration of Independence (Israel)
US government and presidential statements[edit]
- Proclamation 4652 (Jimmy Carter)
- Proclamation 4700 (Jimmy Carter)
- Proclamation 4747 (Jimmy Carter)
- Proclamation 4752 (Jimmy Carter)
- Proclamation 4838 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 4844 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 4936 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 5053 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 5190 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 5321 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 5479 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 5652 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 5798 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 5897 (Ronald Reagan)
- Proclamation 6665 (Bill Clinton)
- Proclamation 7001 (Bill Clinton)
- Proclamation 7087 (Bill Clinton)
- Proclamation 7423 (George W. Bush)
- Proclamation 7673 (George W. Bush)
- Proclamation 7865 (George W. Bush)
- Jewish American Heritage Month, 2009 (Barack Obama)
- US House Resolution 106
- Schindler's List - Congressional Record: February 27, 1997 (House)
- Honoring the Simon Wiesenthal Center Library and Archives (Henry Waxman)
- International Religious Freedom Report 2005 - Austria
- International Religious Freedom Report 2006 - Austria
- Report on Human Rights Practices in Iran - 2006
- 2008 Human Rights Report: Germany
- John McCain speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Holocaust denial[edit]
- David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt and Closing speech at Lipstadt trial
- Zundel v. Sabina Citron et al
- Zundel, re, February 24, 2005