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

Holocaust orphans (Photo by Getty)

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The Holocaust orphans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Child survivors at Auschwitz

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A brief history of Auschwitz

Sir Nicholas Winton

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The 'British Schindler' who saved 669 children from the Nazis

German prisoners of war

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What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Auschwitz volunteer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944

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The liberation of Auschwitz, 75 years on: what happened and how do we remember the Holocaust?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oskar Schindler, who prevented hundreds of Jews from being murdered in the Holocaust

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History heroSimon Reeve chooses Oskar Schindler (1908–74). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Fulbrook and Richard J Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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"Many of the Holocaust's perpetrators got away with it": why Nazi crimes went unpunished. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bart van Es, winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2019 prize. (Photo by Alamy)

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Jews waiting on a Warsaw street for the deportation to a concentration camp.(Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

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Should more be done to remember the Holocaust in Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Fulbrook and Richard J Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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Legacies of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aleksander Kulisiewicz, wearing a concentration camp uniform, performs at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Italy, 1965. (Image: Kulisiewicz family)

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The LibrarySongs of the Holocaust: the music of Aleksander Kulisiewicz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four young members of the largest group of Kindertransport refugees arrive at Southampton, England, in March 1939. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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An aerial view showing the courtroom during the Nuremberg Trials, November 1945. (Photo by Walter Sanders/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Forgotten trials: the other side of Nuremberg. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sewing for the Nazis: who were the dressmakers of Auschwitz?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The big questions of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Holocaust landscapes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The LibraryThe Holocaust on stage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How has public memory of the Holocaust changed over the years?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Magna Carta and the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dwarves in the Holocaust and the Vikings' cultural legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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It was in this villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee that one of history’s most infamous conferences was staged. (Getty) 

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Russian and Polish women liberated from a forced labour camp

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Voices of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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