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    The Holocaust involved the systematic murder of approximately 6 million European Jews carried out by Nazi Germany between 1941-1945. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party believed Jews were an inferior race, and began isolating them in ghettos before transporting them to concentration camps. The largest camp, Auschwitz, saw over 2 million people murdered through gas chambers or starvation. By the time World War 2 ended in 1945 and the camps were liberated, Hitler had ordered the extermination of most of Europe's Jewish population in what is now known as the Holocaust. The surviving Jews had difficulty returning home after the war, leading many to seek a new homeland and the eventual founding of Israel as a refuge for the Jewish people.

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    The Holocaust involved the systematic murder of approximately 6 million European Jews carried out by Nazi Germany between 1941-1945. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party believed Jews were an inferior race, and began isolating them in ghettos before transporting them to concentration camps. The largest camp, Auschwitz, saw over 2 million people murdered through gas chambers or starvation. By the time World War 2 ended in 1945 and the camps were liberated, Hitler had ordered the extermination of most of Europe's Jewish population in what is now known as the Holocaust. The surviving Jews had difficulty returning home after the war, leading many to seek a new homeland and the eventual founding of Israel as a refuge for the Jewish people.

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    The Holocaust involved the systematic murder of approximately 6 million European Jews carried out by Nazi Germany between 1941-1945. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party believed Jews were an inferior race, and began isolating them in ghettos before transporting them to concentration camps. The largest camp, Auschwitz, saw over 2 million people murdered through gas chambers or starvation. By the time World War 2 ended in 1945 and the camps were liberated, Hitler had ordered the extermination of most of Europe's Jewish population in what is now known as the Holocaust. The surviving Jews had difficulty returning home after the war, leading many to seek a new homeland and the eventual founding of Israel as a refuge for the Jewish people.

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    The Holocaust, Part Two: The "Final

    Solution"
    By History.com, adapted by Newsela staff on 02.23.17
    Word Count 516

    A doctor stands at the center with Holocaust survivors at the entrance to the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration
    camp in 1945\. Photo from: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images

    The second in a two-part series

    Adolf Hitler ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was the leader of the Nazi government
    group. Hitler wanted to take over the world. In 1939, he invaded Poland. This act led to
    World War II. Britain and France declared war against the Nazi state.

    In 1940, Hitler sent his army to take more land in Europe. That year, Germany took over
    Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.

    Hitler believed that some Germans were better than everyone else. To him, Jewish
    people were a lower race. Nazi laws punished people for being Jewish.

    In 1941, the Nazis began rounding up Jews in Europe. They sent them to Poland. The
    Jews were forced to live in certain parts of cities. These were called ghettos.

    This was the first step of a horrific plan. The Nazis wanted to kill the Jewish people.
    Beginning in 1941, all Jews were forced to wear a yellow star. This made them easier
    targets. Thousands were sent to the ghettos in Poland.

    This article is available at 5 reading levels at https://newsela.com. 1


    The Nazis killed millions of Jews in concentration camps

    In late 1941, the Nazis began moving people from the ghettos. They shipped them to
    concentration camps. These camps were prisons. People were forced to work there.

    The camps were where the Nazis' mass killings took place. The Nazis used poison gas to
    kill hundreds of Jews at a time.

    The Nazis tried to hide the camps. They did not want the world to know what they were
    doing. But there were hundreds of camps, and too many killings were committed. It was
    not possible to hide all of the killing.

    One of the largest camps was called Auschwitz. At this camp alone, more than 2 million
    people were murdered. Many were killed with poison gas. Others died of hunger and
    illness.

    The killing continued until the end of World War II. By that point, Hitler had ordered the
    killing of about 6 million Jews. This is now known as the Holocaust.

    The end of the war

    World War II came to end in 1945. Hitler killed himself on April 30. He was afraid of being
    captured. Germany officially surrendered about a week later, on May 8.

    The Nazis started emptying the death camps in 1944. They forced prisoners to march
    away from the approaching Allied armies. The Allies were the nations fighting against
    Germany. The marches killed over 250,000 people.

    Other camps were not emptied. They still had prisoners inside when Allied armies arrived.
    One of these camps was Auschwitz. The writer Primo Levi described living there. “We lay
    in a world of death and phantoms," he wrote.

    Israel was created after the Holocaust ended

    Life was not the same after the Holocaust. Jews who survived found it hard to return home.
    In many cases, they had lost their families. They had also been turned away by their non-
    Jewish neighbors. In the 1940s, many Jews were looking for new homes. This eventually
    led to the founding of a new nation called Israel. It was made to be a homeland for the
    Jewish people.

    This article is available at 5 reading levels at https://newsela.com. 2

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