"Holocaust: 1. Great destruction results in much loss of life, especially by fire." The Holocaust might best be described as the widespread genocide of more than eleven million Jews and other undesirables throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945. It began when Adolf Hitler, Germany's new leader, enforced racial laws of Nuremberg. These laws discriminated against Jews and other undesirables and separated them from the rest of the population. As the situation worsened, Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing. The laws even stripped them of their citizenship. The Night of Broken Glass, or Krystal Void, is a prime example of the dire situation for the Jews when their homes, businesses, and churches were destroyed. The real genocide, or racial murder, began when Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration or labor camps. It was in these camps that they were tortured, murdered or worked like slaves. As World War II drew to a close, Hitler implemented what he called the Final Solution, a last-ditch effort to eliminate Judaism in Europe, during which he killed more than six million of them. . Anne Frank was a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl who was forced into hiding in 1942. Her family and another family, the Van Daans, hid in the back of the office building of her father, Otto Frank, in what they called the "secret annex" for the next two years, until they were discovered by a Nazi. group called the Gestapo and arrested. It was during her stay in the secret annex that Anne wrote in a journal she named Kitty, telling her about her experiences in the annex, reporting the situation of the war and its most memorable events, and sharing her personal feelings about the situation. situation. The newspaper became an outlet middle of paper......ope on days like D-Day, the US Army began fighting its way across Europe, liberating concentration camps left and right. RIGHT. President Franklin Delanore Rosevelt made the difficult decision to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan. this led to even more unimaginable losses. Ultimately, after more than four and a half million lives lost, Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II. The Holocaust is one of the most famous events in history. The question is: why do we learn about it? We choose to keep the horrors of the Holocaust fresh in our minds and in the minds of our children to prevent it from happening again. The United Nations was created to prevent another world war from occurring. We study the Holocaust so we can identify the early stages of genocide and stop it before it begins. We put so much effort into studying history to keep it from repeating itself.