- Holocaust (from the English holocaust, from Old Greek ὁλοκαύστος - "burnt offering"):
in a narrow sense - the persecution and mass extermination of Jews who lived in Germany, on the territory of its allies and in the territories occupied by them during the Second World War; the systematic persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany and collaborators during 1933-1945. Along with the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most famous examples of genocide in the 20th century.
in a broad sense - the persecution and mass destruction by the Nazis of representatives of various ethnic and social groups (Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Jews, Gypsies, homosexual men, Freemasons, hopelessly sick and disabled people, etc.) during the existence of Nazi Germany.
During the Holocaust, Germany included Austria, Poland, the District of Galicia, the Reichskommissariat Ostland, Ukraine, etc., see Administrative-territorial structure of the Third Reich
The definition given by BTS (cited from gramota.ru): Holokost. - Great Dictionary of Russian language. Compiled by and ch. ed. S. A. Kuznetsov. SPb., Norint, 1998-2009, 1536 p.
What to Teach about the Holocaust; there is a draft translation.
Romanovsky N.V. Faces of ethnocracy // Russia and the modern world. - Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000. - Issue. 3. - P. 128 .-- ISSN 1726-5223.
Since the 1990s - see Marcuse, 2010, p. 53
Ban Ki-moon Message on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust (January 27, 2009). - “Today we honor the memory of the millions of victims of Nazism - almost one third of the Jewish people and countless members of other minorities - who were subjected to severe discrimination, deprivation, atrocities and murders.” Retrieved November 22, 2009. Archived from the original on August 23, 2011.
Dictionary of Genocide (pp. 190-191),
Holocaust. The English-language term that has been most closely identified with the nearly successful attempt ... to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
In the 1980s and 1990s the term Holocaust also began to be used by various scholars (eg, historian Sybil Milton) and organizations (eg, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) to describe the Nazis "attempt to exterminate other groups, specifically, the Roma and Sinti and the mentally and physically handicapped.
Encyclopedia of Genocide (p. 176),
As Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of Auschwitz, long ago observed, “The Holocaust was not only a matter of the killing of six million Jews. It involved the killing of eleven million people, six million of whom were Jews. " Wiesenthal spoke on the basis of what was then the best available evidence. Today, some 50 years later, the only correction to be made to his statement lies in the fact that we now believe his estimate of 11 million was far too low. The true human costs of Nazi genocide may come to 26 million or more, 5 to 6 million of whom were Jews, a half million to a million or more of whom were Gipsies, and the rest mostly Slavs. Only with these facts clearly in mind can we comprehend the full scope of the Holocaust and its real implications. "
Annually on January 27, at the initiative of the UN, it is celebrated International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust... In the narrow sense of the word, the Holocaust refers to the persecution and destruction of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany during World War II. In the broadest sense of the word The holocaust- This is the mass extermination by the Nazis of representatives of various ethnic and social groups during the Third Reich.
The term itself appeared in everyday life due to the borrowing from the Greek biblical texts of the forms of the word holocaustum ("burnt offering", "burnt offering"), in the English version - holocaust.
In the Russian version, the word "Holocaust" can denote the genocide of any nation (as, for example, the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire), while using "Holocaust" with a capital letter it means the events of the Second World War.
Chronology
May 10, 1933 - the burning of books by Jewish authors took place, by September Jews were forbidden to participate in the cultural life of the country.
July 3, 1934 - A law was passed prohibiting the marriage of Aryans with representatives of "another race".
September 15, 1935 - the Nuremberg Laws were adopted - two legislative acts providing for the deprivation of German citizenship for those who do not "possess German or related blood", close attention was paid to Jews and Gypsies.
October 5, 1938 - In the passports of Jews they begin to put down "J", which means "Jude" - a Jew.
November 1938 - the whole world was shocked by the events of the so-called "Kristallnacht", more than 1400 synagogues were destroyed, thousands of Jews suffered, tens of thousands were sent to concentration camps.
September 21, 1939 - instructions appeared on the imprisonment of Polish Jews in the ghetto, a little later Jews were ordered to wear the "Star of David" on their sleeves
June 22, 1941 - Germany attacked the USSR, the mass extermination of Soviet Jews began in the occupied territories.
July 31 - the Germans set about preparing the "final solution to the Jewish question", ghettos were opened on the territory of Russia.
August 11 - More than 18 thousand Jews were shot near the Zmievskaya Balka (Rostov-on-Don).
April 19 - the uprising began in the Warsaw ghetto, then during the year the uprisings took place in the Bialystok ghetto and the Sobibor camp.
February - July 1944 - the ghettos of Transnistria and the Majdanek camp were liberated.
May 8, 1945 - Germany surrendered, trials of war criminals began in October.
Figures and facts
A total of 6 million Jews died in the genocide, and about 4 million people were identified. This is about a third of the entire Jewish population of the world.
566 thousand Jews lived in Germany until 1933, of which 150 thousand emigrated, 170 thousand died.
350 thousand Hungarian, the same number of French and Romanian Jews died during the war.
3 million 350 thousand Jews lived in Poland, of which 350 thousand were saved.
1.2 million people - this is the number of Soviet Jews who died.
4 million (according to other estimates - 2-3 million) people were killed in the Auschwitz death camp, the "throughput" of the camp was increased to 20 thousand people a day. 870 thousand people died in the Treblinka camp, 600 thousand - in the Belzec camp.
200 thousand people were killed and about a million patients in German hospitals were starved to death under the "T-4" program (the program provided for the killing of disabled people, people with mental illness, children with neurological and somatic diseases, considered "biologically threatening the health of the country").
5-15 thousand people were held in camps for homosexual activity, about 9 thousand of them died. Prisoners were required to wear a pink triangle insignia on their clothes.
23 thousand saviors of the Jewish population were awarded the honorary title "Righteous of the World", among them more than 6,000 from Poland, 5,000 from Holland and 3,000 from France. At the risk of their lives, they helped the Jewish population to escape from destruction by the Nazis.
Why was the Holocaust possible?
Historians believe that as a result of a well-thought-out policy, the Germans managed not to miss information about their plans for quite a long time, therefore, the Jews brought to the ghetto simply tried to survive and fulfill all the requirements of the invaders.
Resistance began when the motives of the Nazis became finally clear, but without the support of the local population outside the walls of the ghetto, the rebels died. Those who at the risk of their lives helped the refugees were later called the "Righteous Among the World."
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943) became a symbol of the resistance of the Jewish people. When the destruction of the ghetto began, its inhabitants resisted the much better equipped German troops for five weeks. However, on May 16, the "cleansing" of the ghetto was completed.
After the end of the war, points of view emerged that denied the very historical fact of the Holocaust and the anti-Semitic policies of the Third Reich. Professional historians and researchers consider this approach unscientific. In a number of countries, public denial of the Holocaust has become a criminal offense.
Day of Remembrance
The United Nations has devoted and continues to devote a lot of time to educational activities, not allowing the world to forget the events that took place during the Second World War. In 2005, the UN General Assembly adopted a program called "The Holocaust and the United Nations," which encourages the development of educational programs on the Holocaust to tell people exactly what was happening at that time.
At the same time, the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust was established (January 27, as already noted, is the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp), which implied various events in UN offices around the world. So, at the ceremony in the General Assembly hall in 2006, more than 2,000 people gathered, many people around the world watched TV and Internet broadcasts.
In 2007, the UN General Assembly Resolution 61/255 was adopted, in which it was strongly recommended that all countries reject any denial of the Holocaust and honor the memory of those who died at the hands of the Nazis.
Since then, the UN, with the support of UNESCO, the European Parliament and regional intergovernmental organizations, has encouraged special events, such as documentaries or information materials, to raise awareness of the dangers of genocide policies.
In memory of the Holocaust, many memorials have been erected, museums have been created in different countries of the world (the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, or the Documentation Center and Memorial in Paris).
Actually, the term "Holocaust" is not new to anyone. You can even say that it is commonplace, understandable and accepted by all normal people as a fact. The systematic destruction of the Jews of all Europe by the German fascists does not require any proof and was an international crime.
And the Germans do not deny this. It would be difficult. But it turns out that there are some nuances in this matter.
I'll start with the definition in Wikipedia, as with a publication that cannot be reproached for anti-Semitism in any way.
Holocaust (from the English holocaust, from Old Greek ὁλοκαύστος - "burnt offering"):
In a broad sense, the persecution and mass destruction by the Nazis of representatives of various ethnic and social groups (Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Jews, Gypsies, homosexual men, Freemasons, hopelessly sick and disabled people, etc.) during the existence of Nazi Germany.
In a narrow sense - the persecution and mass extermination of Jews who lived in Germany, on the territory of its allies and in the territories occupied by them during the Second World War; the systematic persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany and collaborators during 1933-1945. Along with the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most famous examples of genocide in the 20th century.
And another moment from the same place:
In modern English, with a capital letter (Holocaust) the word is used in the meaning of the extermination of Jews by the Nazis, and with a lowercase letter (holocaust) - in other cases.
That is, the Holocaust is written with a capital letter in a narrow sense when it comes to Jews. With a small letter - when in wide, which includes all the others.
It seemed very strange to me.
Yes, today for the majority of ordinary people, "the Holocaust is when Jews were exterminated." And, to be honest, the Jews themselves are actively promoting this term, in fact, having monopolized it.
Meanwhile, there is something to think about here.
For example, that of the 5.7 million Red Army soldiers who were captured by Germany, 3.3 million were killed.
In principle, every German soldier knew that an enemy who surrendered voluntarily could not be killed. However, they killed. Filtering out the same Jews, political workers and commanders. And they did it not of their own accord, both in the Wehrmacht and in the SS had a number of orders from the Supreme High Command (OKV) and the top of the SS, which clearly stated "new methods of warfare."
And the new methods prescribed not only to defeat the Jewish-communist enemies, but also to destroy them.
That there is only one "commissar order" of June 6, 1941 signed by Warlimont and Brauchitsch (additions).
“… These commissars are not recognized as soldiers; they are not subject to the international legal protection applicable to prisoners of war. After sorting, they must be destroyed. "
What do the "truth-tellers" say about Stalin about non-compliance with the Hague Convention?
And the gallant officers of the Wehrmacht, although they grumbled in their memoirs (like, for example, Manstein), were shot. Proven at the Nuremberg Tribunal in relation to parts of the same Manstein.
What other conventions are there ...
No, the Wehrmacht remembered these conventions. The first of ten rules for the conduct of war by German soldiers recorded on every military identity card read:
“The German soldier is nobly fighting for the victory of his people. Cruelty and senseless destruction are unworthy of him. "
It is clear that the Soviets, who were either communists or Jews, and often both, this did not apply.
Yes, Hitler really wanted to make the Wehrmacht his political instrument. And he did it very well. On March 30, 1941, Hitler delivered a speech at a general meeting in his Reich Chancellery.
The meeting was attended by more than 200 generals, who, in fact, were to command the troops of the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa. Moreover, it was not some specially selected, ideologically competent and super-reliable leadership team, but the most ordinary generals of the Wehrmacht. The core of the German army.
And what, gentlemen, the generals did not understand that Hitler demanded from them to wage war by methods that contradicted generally accepted norms of waging war? Of course they did. But no one wanted to look for adventure on their support, so they were condemned behind the scenes, and went to fight.
And here are the consequences for us: out of 5.7 million Red Army soldiers who were captured by Germany, 3.3 million died, which amounted to 57.5% of their total number. Many of them were shot, but most died in numerous POW camps.
In the winter of 1941-1942 alone, the death toll of the Red Army was about two million. In fact, we can say that a soldier who fell into the hands of the Wehrmacht in 1941 had practically no chance of surviving.
The number of Soviet prisoners of war killed and the number of Jewish deaths in numbers is appalling. 3.3 million and 5.8 million people are huge numbers.
Holocaust? Holocaust. Or at least the Holocaust. Lower case.
But for some reason, the first figure of losses does not attract such attention, in contrast to the second.
The fact that the Jews put things this way and made the Holocaust a common Holocaust for their own - this does them credit, by the way. And there is a lot to learn, you have to admit it.
But why did it turn out differently for us? For some reason, neither in the Soviet Union, nor in the heap of independent states after the collapse, nor in Germany dared to draw attention to the crimes against the soldiers of the Red Army.
A complete blackout? Why?
Largely because after the end of the war, many facts were not published. First of all, it was hushed up that the death of such a huge number of Red Army soldiers was originally planned by the Nazi leadership even during the preparation of the attack on the USSR. And it was conscientiously executed not only by executioners from the SS, but also by "honest" representatives of the Wehrmacht.
Of course, the outbreak of the Cold War also played a role. The communists have not gone anywhere, they have just become enemies from allies, which means that there is no need to feel sorry for them? I am sure that many of the archives that fell into the hands of the Allies were either destroyed or are still lying quietly somewhere.
Many people today talk about some kind of "compensatory effect". I agree that a large number of German soldiers were also captured by the Soviet Union, and many of them died there. But the numbers are completely incomparable!
Of the 3.5 million German prisoners of war and allies in captivity, slightly more than half a million died. That is, 14.9%. These are the official numbers. And how can we compare them with 57.5% of our losses? No way.
The criminal actions of the Wehrmacht and the SS in relation to our prisoners of war in 1941-1945 are a shame. But this shame lies not only on the Wehrmacht and the German people. We are also responsible for the fact that our Holocaust was left behind the scenes.
Yes, more than seven decades have passed. Nevertheless, today it is not too late to raise this issue. The question of the correct Holocaust. This is a memory. It's an honor.
The correct term Holocaust is the one with a capital letter, which means everyone: Jews, Poles, Gypsies and fighters of the Red Army: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews, Moldovans, Tatars, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Bashkirs, everyone, who fought under the red banner.
This is the correct understanding. Everything else is usurpation for the sake of one nation, not very correct. Nevertheless, the Holocaust against Jews takes place to be recognized by the world community. Is it worthy of capitalization? Do not know.
I know that we will have enough opinions from both sides. But before expressing them, I ask you to just think about one thing: a Pole from Warsaw, a Jew from Dresden, a Russian from Yaroslavl, all breathed the same air and everyone's blood was red.
And this is not "their" Holocaust. This is our common tragedy, this is our common Holocaust.
Underestimated events of history. Book of Historical Errors by Stomma Ludwig
The holocaust
The holocaust
Holocaust- in a narrow sense, it is the persecution and mass extermination of Jews who lived in Germany, on the territory of its allies, satellites or in the lands occupied by them during the Second World War. In a broad sense, this is the persecution and mass destruction by the Nazis of representatives of various ethnic and social groups (communists, freemasons, disabled people, Jews, gypsies, etc.) during the existence of Nazi Germany.
The Nazi dictatorship began on March 23, 1933, when President Paul Hindenburg passed the Emergency Powers Act under pressure from the NADAP. He abolished civil liberties and handed over emergency powers to a government led by Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were adopted - the "Reich Citizenship Law" and the "Law on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor", according to which "only a person with German or related blood can be a citizen of the Reich." Thus, the laws automatically deprived of citizenship all who did not possess "German blood", primarily Jews and Gypsies. The law established the categories of Jews and "persons with an admixture of Jewish blood", introduced the concept of "non-Aryan". Only those who had at least three Jewish grandparents were considered Jews. People with half Jewish blood were considered Jews only if they professed Judaism. Persons with a quarter of Jewish blood were not considered Jews. Reich citizens were forbidden to enter into marriage and sexual relations with Jews, Jews were deprived of the right to vote and hold public and state offices.
On November 9-10, 1938, a series of pogroms of Jewish-owned shops and workshops took place throughout Germany and Austria. The pogroms were carried out by paramilitary units of the SA and civilians with the full connivance of the authorities. Kristallnacht was the beginning of the racial policy - the "final solution to the Jewish question" - adopted at the 1942 Wannsee Conference. This policy implied the forced emigration of Jews from the territory of the Reich, as well as subordinate or occupied territories, and then the mass extermination of Jews.
For the mass extermination of Jews and "groups hostile to the Reich", death camps were used. The first concentration camps in Nazi Germany were created to isolate suspected opposition to the Nazi regime, but the concentration camps soon developed into a huge, well-oiled system designed to suppress and destroy opponents of Nazism or members of the "lower" groups of the population (according to Nazi doctrine). The death camps were built according to special projects, with the expectation of the destruction of a huge number of people. The death camps intended for mass murder were Chelmno, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Yasenovac, Maly Trostenets.
In the death camps, all arrivals were sorted. Children, old people, sick and weak people were immediately sent to the gas chambers. The rest faced torment, hard labor and a half-starved existence. The sick and exhausted were sent to the gas chambers. There are known examples of heroic resistance from concentration camp prisoners doomed to death, for example, the uprising in the Treblinka camp in November 1942 and August 1943, the October 1943 uprising in the Sobibor camp.
The crimes of Nazism against peace and humanity were condemned at the Nurembern International Tribunal, held from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
MOST IMPORTANT HOLOCAUST EVENTS
March 23, 1933. The Emergency Powers Act establishes the dictatorship of the National Socialists in Germany.
September 1, 1939. The beginning of the Second World War, the attack of Nazi Germany on Poland.
Spring 1942. Beginning of the mass deportation of Jews from Western and Central Europe to death camps.
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Holocaust (from the English holocaust, from Old Greek ὁλοκαύστος - "burnt offering"):
In a broad sense- the persecution and mass destruction by the Nazis of representatives of various ethnic and social groups (Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Jews, Gypsies, homosexual men, Freemasons, hopelessly sick and disabled people, etc.) during the existence of Nazi Germany.
In a narrow sense- the persecution and mass extermination of Jews who lived in Germany, on the territory of its allies and in the territories occupied by them during the Second World War; the systematic persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany and collaborators during 1933-1945. Along with the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most famous examples of genocide in the 20th century.
Annually on January 27 is celebrated International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust(International Holocaust Remembrance Day), which is the first world day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. The day was approved by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005.
In June 1940, Bessarabia becomes part of the Soviet Union. Together with the MASSR (Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), the Moldavian SSR is formed, on the territory of which about 300,000 Jews.
The fate of the Jews of Bessarabia during the Holocaust is the most tragic. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, massacres of Jews took place in every settlement. Often the murders are accompanied by sadistic cruelty. For example, In Rezina, about 1000 women and children are burned alive in lime kilns, people are buried alive, they are hung alive on iron hooks ...
Already in July 1941, they begin to form ghetto... The first 25,000 Jews are deported to the territory occupied by the Germans in Ukraine; during the occupation of Chisinau, the Nazis kill at least 10,000 Jews.
By August 1941, there are 7 large ghettos and Jewish concentration camps in Bessarabia, where about 65,000 Jews are kept.
The deportation of Jews to Transnistria began in September 1941. Until December 1941, almost the entire Jewish population of the ghetto was deported, the conditions of deportation are terrible and thousands of people die on the way and during the crossings. Several hundred Jews who remained in the Chisinau ghetto and other territories were deported in early 1942.
According to the National Institute of Women of Moldova "Ravnopravie" , taking into account those saved by the righteous of the world and other unknown heroes, by the end of World War II, no more than 1,000 Jews remained in Bessarabia (in 1944).
Several dozen families managed to escape, having crossed with the help of relatives and friends to Romania, but these cases are rare, representatives say.
Unlike the territory of Romania, Transnistria and even Bukovina, by the end of 1941 - early 1942, almost all of the Jewish population of Bessarabia was either destroyed or deported to Transnistria.
In June 2016, the OSCE Mission to Moldova helped representatives of the Moldovan authorities and civil society to participate in plenary sessions of the International Alliance in Memory of the Holocaust (IAHR) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Recall that a report on anti-Semitism released in 2015 by the Jewish Community of the Republic of Moldova (JORM) mentions a case of vandalism, when on the night of October 25-26, 2015, unknown persons painted the walls of the ORT Technological Lyceum named after B.Z. Herzl. A criminal case has been initiated, but the perpetrators have not been identified to date. The report also notes an increase in anti-Semitic statements in the press. According to the community leadership, not the slightest effort was made to suppress the propaganda of anti-Semitism.
According to the JMRM, set out in the 2015 report, there is a clear reluctance on the part of public authorities to help perpetuate the memory of those killed in the Holocaust.
On July 26, 2016, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopted the Declaration on the Approval of the Final Report of the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust, chaired by Elie Wiesel, and on May 22, 2017, the government approved the Action Plan for the implementation of the said Declaration.
“It should be noted, however, that these two documents were adopted as a result of strong pressure from the international community, which indicates the lack of political will on the part of the Moldovan leadership to develop and implement a state policy to study the Holocaust and preserve the memory of its victims. Obviously, changes for the better in this regard will be possible only if the above-mentioned pressure from the foreign partners of our country is maintained, ”notes Alexey Tulbure, Director of the Institute of Oral History of Moldova.
In 2007 it was adopted UN General Assembly Resolution 61/255, in which it was strongly recommended that all countries reject any denial of the Holocaust and honor the memory of those who died at the hands of the Nazis.
Since then, the UN, with the support of UNESCO, the European Parliament and regional intergovernmental organizations, has encouraged special events, such as watching documentaries or producing information materials, to raise awareness of the dangers of genocide policies.
In memory of the Holocaust, many memorials have been erected, museums have been created in different countries of the world (the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, or the Documentation Center and Memorial in Paris).
