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The Holocaust refers to the period from January 30, 1933 (when Hitler came to power) to May 8, 1945, the end of the war in Europe.

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The Holocaust is responsible for the killing of two-thirds of all Jewish people living in Europe during World War II

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The Holocaust saw most of the killings from 1941-1945, but Jews were persecuted starting in 1933 when Hitler came to power

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The Holocaust involved over 44,000 incarceration sites, (i.e. detention centers, forced-labor camps, and killing centers)

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The Holocaust also targeted Gypsies, Serbs, Polish intelligentsia, resistance fighters, German opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, beggars, vagrants, and hawkers.

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Albania's mostly Muslim population sheltered Jews from around Europe from the Holocaust. Only five Jews were killed in Albania during the two years of Nazi rule

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A kosher bread sausage was invented in Portugal for Jews to hang from their rafters like catholics and to help hide them from the Spanish inquisition.

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