The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, `whole` and kaustós, `burnt`) also known as Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, `the catastrophe`; Yiddish: חורבן, Churben or Hurban, from the Hebrew for `destruction`), was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime, unde...