Throughout history, there have been many examples of genocide, the attempt to eliminate entire peoples or religious or ethnic groups. The most studied example is the Holocaust, in which Hitler and the Nazis aimed to wipe out systematically the entire European population of Jewish people. In this chapter, you will learn about this horrific period of history, and look at other examples of genocide: those of Native Americans, Armenians and the people of Cambodia.
The Holocaust Type of source
Secondary Primary
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The Book of Names, put together at Auschwitz-Birkenau from the camp’s records
The documentary fi lm Shoah, in which survivors of the camps, SS offi cers and others are interviewed about what they witnessed
The Wall of Names, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Paris
The documentary Shoah What can you learn from the above sources about the genocide that was the Holocaust? 389
