The holocaust has been called the most terrible catastrophe in world history. Another word for Holocaust is the Shoah, a Hebrew word meaning “a whirlwind of destruction”. The Holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jewish people during World War Two. Before the Holocaust nine million Jews lived in Europe, but after Holocaust two thirds of them were dead. The Jews weren’t the only victims of Nazi hatred. The gypsies, people with handicaps, communists, and prisoners of war were targeted. The leader of the hateful group, the Nazis was Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hit