The Holocaust starts on January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During the time, Jews in Europe were subjected to harsh persecution which led to 6,000,000 Jews dead (1.5 million were children). Approximately two million women and three million Jewish men were killed. (Two-thirds of Jews in Europe were killed). A network of 40,000 facilities in Germany and German-occupied territory were used to concentrate, hold, and kill Jews and other victims. It was not only just Jews that were killed, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissident and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/ political beliefs, physical defeats, or failure to fall into the “Aryan” ideal. 11 million individuals wiped off the Earth by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. People’s lives were killed because of racism and hate , all in a period of 11 year(1933-1945). There are two main phases to the Holocaust, between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi rise, between 1939 and 1945, the period of war of World War II. The first concentration camp opened in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power, and continued to run until the end of the war and the Third Reich: May 8, 1945. The idea that the Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended is a difficult concept, but this is an important point, and one this site hoped to help bring across.