Holocaust

Orchestrated by anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust saw the systematic murder of more than six million Jews. Today the Holocaust is commemorated on Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. The Auschwitz concentration camp is the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world: around 1.1 million people were killed there – 1 million of them Jews

Anne Frank writing at her desk, c1942

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The 1993 film ‘Schindler’s List’. (AF Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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A group of Tunisian Jews are rounded up and marched through the streets of Tunis carrying shovels in December 1942

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A 'teacher' in Milgram's study is instructed to administer an electric shock to a 'learner'.

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Adolf Eichmann during his trial in 1961

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When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

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A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

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Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944

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Simon Wiesenthal, who became famous after World War II for his work as a 'Nazi hunter'. (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in Amazon Prime's 'Hunters'.

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Photographs of Anne Frank and her father, Otto, with the typewriter

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Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel (Image by Wall to Wall Media/Laurence Turnbull)

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US academic Deborah Lipstadt exults the High Court in London after winning a libel case brought against her by British historian David Irving, 11 April 2000. (Photo by Martyn Hayhow/AFP/Getty Images)

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