Genocides - Amalek, the Holocaust, Mass Killings Under Communist Regimes, Rwandan Genocide, Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 107. Chapters: Amalek, The Holocaust, Mass killings under Communist regimes, Rwandan Genocide, Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Herero and Namaqua Genocide, Operation Blue Star, Black War, Bubi people, Anti-communist mass killings, Bar Kokhba revolt, 1944-1945 killings in Vojvodina, Wadda Ghalughara, Anthropology of the Rwandan Genocide, Chhotaa Ghallooghaaraa, Hondh-Chillar massacre, Parsley Massacre, Burundi genocide, Batak massacre, William Schabas, Battle of Waterberg, Zhang Xianzhong, Massacre of Ostrowki, Rohingya massacre, Battle of Melos. Excerpt: "Selection" on the Judenrampe, Auschwitz, May/June 1944. To be sent to the right meant slave labor; to the left, the Gas chamber. This image shows the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia, many of them from the Berehov ghetto. The photographer was Ernst Hofmann or Bernhard Walter of the SS. Image courtesy of Yad Vashem. The Holocaust (from the Greek: holos, "whole" and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: , HaShoah, "catastrophe"; Yiddish: , Churben or Hurban, from the Hebrew for "destruction"), was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds perished. More than one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, as were approximately two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide of millions of people in other groups, including Romani (more commonly known in English by the exonym "Gypsies"), Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civi...