- Collection:
- Georgia Government Publications
- Title:
- What is the Holocaust?
- Creator:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia Commission on the Holocaust
Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 - Date of Original:
- 2012
- Subject:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Location:
- Europe, 48.69096, 9.14062
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018 - Medium:
- state government records
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Description based on online resource harvested on February 14, 2014 from holocaust.georgia.gov; title from PDF caption (Georgia Government Publications database, viewed August 21, 2015)
- External Identifiers:
- OCLC 919212241
NZ MMS ID 9910145035802931
Call Number G630.H6 M1 2012 W4 - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_ggpd_s-ga-bg630-ph6-bm1-b2012-bw4-belec-p-btext
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ggpd_s-ga-bg630-ph6-bm1-b2012-bw4-belec-p-btext
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 page)
- Holding Institution:
- University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library
- Rights:
-
WHAT IS THE HOLOCAUST?
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Holocaust is the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
Jews were the primary victims -- six million were murdered; Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), people with mental and physical disabilities, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi Germany.
ROLES IN THE HOLOCAUST
Georgia commission on the holocaust
PERPETRATORS
Those responsible for the crimes, deaths, and act of hatred. The perpetrators were not beasts but human beings who made moral and ethical choices. They chose to commit evil and violate human rights. One is not born with hatred it is taught.
TARGETS
Groups and individuals who were targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic or national reasons. This includes those that perished and those who survived.
WITNESSES & BYSTANDERS
The largest group of people during the Holocaust. Bystanders are those who remained silent, passive, and indifferent. It is vital to teach and discuss the consequences of when that happens when people make the choice to be a bystander.
RESCUERS, RESISTERS & PARTISANS
Individuals or groups of individuals who made choices and risked their own lives to save others and stand up against bigotry, prejudice, and hate.
COLLABORATORS
Groups or individuals who worked with the Nazis regardless of whether they shared a common goal or believed in the Nazi racial ideology. Collaborators made the choice to join and assist the Nazis for many reasons. Examples include the Axis powers who enforced anti-Jewish laws, Norwegian police who assisted in deportations of Jews to Auschwitz, villagers in Poland who dug mass graves for bodies after shootings, etc.
LIBERATORS
Allied troops responsible for liberating concentration and extermination camps throughout Europe.