Between the years 1933 and 1945, eleven million people lost their lives in what has come to be called the Holocaust. Holocaust means "to destroy with fire".

The Nazi party came to power in Germany, with Adolf Hitler as its leader. The Nazis' goal was to create a "perfect" race, which consisted of blonde hair, blue eyed, patriotic citizens. To achieve this goal, Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Poles, mentally handicapped, physically handicapped, criminals, and people not supportive of the Nazi party were discriminated against, put into concentration camps, moved into death camps, and eventually, if not during the process, murdered.

After awhile, the Nazis came up with the easiest, quickest way to kill the most amounts of people; with the aid of the gas Zyklon-B, millions of prisoners were gassed. Following the gas chambers came the crematoriums, in which the bodies of the dead were burned. In addition to the death camps, a large number of prisoners were worked to death in concentration camps and others were lined up and shot. Of the eleven million murdered, six million of them were Jewish, and the other five million consisted of all other groups of people discriminated against and Russian prisoners of war.

Each year the Holocaust is remembered throughout the world on Yom HaShoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day, to ensure that the people who lost their lives in this tragedy are not forgotten. Eleven million died, a few survived, but the whole world must remember.