The Holocaust

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The Holocaust refers to the mass murder of six million European Jews perpetrated by the Nazi regime from 1941 to 1945. Driven by racial hatred and a sense of superiority, the Nazis aimed to exterminate all individuals of Jewish descent within their reach, including the youngest children, ensuring that no one survived. The killings were organized with bureaucratic precision and systematic brutality, resembling an almost industrial process. Every aspect was meticulously planned and executed according to a pre-approved schedule. The Holocaust was the tragic culmination of escalating persecution, humiliation, theft, expulsion, and rampant murder of Jews by the Nazi regime since it came to power in Germany in 1933. This comprehensive work by prominent historian František Emmert systematically maps all key events related to the Holocaust and the preceding persecution of Jews during the Nazi era and World War II, featuring over two hundred unique photographs and reproductions of period documents.