May Their Memory Be a Blessing
זיכרונם לברכה
zikhronam livrakha
About this site
Between 1941 and 1945, six million Jews and five million others were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. This site exists to document what happened, who was responsible, who the victims were, and why it still matters. It is written for anyone who wants to understand, not as a summary, but as a full account, grounded in evidence and organised to make the history navigable.
The term ‘Holocaust’ is applied by historians specifically to the mass murder of Jews. The murder of European Jewry was the Nazi regime’s central ideological project for which the camps, the gas chambers, and the continent-wide bureaucracy of deportation were ultimately constructed. The killing of others served different purposes within Nazi policy, however, their tragic fate is included on this site out of respect and sympathy.
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IIWho Did ItThe perpetrators, collaborators, and the industrial machinery that made genocide possible.→
IIIThe VictimsWho the victims were – their lives, their cultures, and what was lost with them.→
IVThe DeniersEvery denial claim examined and refuted with evidence. The Holocaust is not a matter of opinion.→
VThe TrialsNuremberg and beyond – how international law was forged in response to unprecedented crime.→
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Elie Wiesel
From the site
Featured
Generalplan Ost: The Plan to Erase Poland
Nazi Germany did not merely occupy Poland. It planned to erase it entirely, to remove or kill 85 percent of the Polish population and replace them with German settlers. The plan was real, was partially implemented, and would have constituted one of the largest acts of genocide in human history had Germany won the war.
The Victims
Yiddish Culture and Language: What the Holocaust Destroyed
The Trials
Benjamin Ferencz: The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor
Who Did It
The Desk Killers: Murder by Bureaucracy
What Happened
Babi Yar: 33,771 People Killed in Two Days
The Deniers
The Six Million Figure: How It Is Calculated and Why It Is Reliable
The Victims
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Resistance in the Face of Certain Death