Auschwitz was an extermination camp in Poland where more than a million Jews were killed by poison gas; their bodies were incinerated in crematorium ovens to dispose of the remains. Nothing was left but smoke and ashes.

The Holocaust, meaning destruction on a massive scale, is the term for the genocide perpetrated against Europe’s Jews by the Nazis and their supporters, 1933-1945. The goal was to kill every Jew in Europe. Of the nine million Jews in Europe at the beginning of Nazi control in 1933, 6 million were murdered. One of every four of them was a child.

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