Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Ghettos

Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.

Article about the coverage and response that news of the Holocaust received at various times throughout World War II.

Read about the plight of children, especially Jewish and Roma children, during the Holocaust

An explanation of the term "antisemitism" and its particular reference to the Holocaust.

An article about plight of people, especially Jewish people, who were displaced by World War II and had no homes to return to, and how the world-wide community did, and did not, aid them in the years immediately following the war.

The roles of Jewish women and women of other groups targeted by the Nazis is described, but the article also tells of the roles many women played in the various resistance movements during World War II.

Entry describes the Nazi persecution of gays. Includes information on the criminal code Paragraph 175 and the pink triangle symbol used to mark gay men in concentration camps.

An explanation of the term "racism" and how it impacted the rise of Nazism and World War II.

Article describes the various organized and individual resistance movements and actions taken by Jews in Germany and throughout Europe during World War II.

Article about the Nazi movement to annihilate as much of the Polish population as possible during World War II. This article focuses particularly on the non-Jewish portion of the Polish populaton.