The Holocaust was mainly fueled by a long history of hatred of Jewish people. This antisemitism stretches back to the death of Jesus Christ, when the Christians and the Jews distanced themselves from one another.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Race Laws were put in place. These laws dictated who people could and couldn't marry based on ethnicity.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was a major site of the "Final Solution". An estimated 1.1 million people were killed.
About eleven million people were killed during the Holocaust. Their shoes, and other personal items, were taken from them.
The majority of the victims of the Holocaust were Jews, but several other groups were targeted as well. Other victims included certain ethnic groups, prisoners of war, gay people, and disabled people.
Of the eleven million victims of the Holocaust, six million were Jewish. Many of the survivors who were liberated suffered from disease and starvation. Survivors suffered significant psychological trauma that made it difficult to return to their lives. They also feared facing antisemitism when they returned to their old homes. Many left their old homes and moved to Western Europe where they were housed in refugee camps. After the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, many Jewish survivors moved there.
One way to prevent genocide in the future is by raising public awareness. Preventing hate speech and violence based on the hatred of others can help prevent future genocides.