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A group of people walk in front of the front building of former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Birkenau
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Holocaust

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The term Holocaust or Shoah, from the Hebrew word for "catastrophe," refers to the mass murder of the Jewish people during the Nazi reign of Germany from 1933-1945.