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“The Holocaust, more commonly known now among Jewish scholars by its Hebrew term, Shoah (i.e.,”annihilation”), refers first and foremost to the systematic destruction of some six million European Jews by the Nazi government of Germany between 1933 and 1945. It also includes the death through disease, medical experimentation, war, and direct extermination of approximately five million non-Jewish victims, especially the physically and mentally impaired; Polish people, whose nation the Nazis hoped to reduce to slavery status; and Gypsies. The u...