Genocide

Holocaust

The destruction or slaughter of a people on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war; specifically refers to the mass killing of millions of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II.

Auschwitz-Birkenau

The most infamous and largest concentration camp under the Third Reich, centrally located in the Nazi empire.

Genocide

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.

Ghetto

A part of a city in which members of a minority group live, often due to social, legal, or economic pressure.

The Great Purge

A campaign during the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938 where millions of people were executed or sent to labor camps.

The Final Solution

The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews, Gypsies, and others, implemented through concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.

Concentration Camps

Nazi prisons where people were forced to work as slaves and millions were killed.

Armenian Genocide

A genocidal program against ethnic Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, resulting in the massacre or deportation of an estimated 1 million Armenians.

Cambodian Genocide

A genocidal policy enacted by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s targeting educated individuals and resulting in the deaths of over 1 million people in 'The Killing Fields.'