The Holocaust was the systematic mass murder of the Jews during the Nazi regime. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, they deprived the Jews of their civil rights, persecuted them and forced them into ghettoes. In 1941 Adolf Eichman's program "The Final Solution" introduced extermination in the concentration camps. At this time death camps were built in Poland. More than six million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis by the spring of 1945.

This site lists some links to some of the perpetrators, victims and events of the Holocaust. I have also added several movies and films which I have found enlightening and useful in teaching High School students. Following this list is a list of excellent books which give some insight into the Holocaust. I personally believe that every student should read NIGHT by Elie Wiesel.

SONG OF THE MURDERED JEWISH PEOPLE

I had a dream,
A dream so terrible:
My people were no more,
No more!

I wake with a cry.
What I dreamed was true:
It had happened indeed,
It had happened to me.

(Yitzhak Katznelson, gassed at Birkenau April 30, 1944)