Holocaust Research Paper: Holocaust Survivors The Holocaust was the organized massacre of approximately 11 million people, 6 million of whom were Jews; several groups of people were murdered by an association called Nazis. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the time when Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It began in 1933 and ended in 1945 with the end of the war. The mass murder of these people took place throughout Europe. The Nazis (National Socialist German Workers' Party) believed they were superior to all other races and religions. Jews were the most targeted of all other ethnic and religious groups in Germany. Some of the other groups targeted by the Nazis were Gypsies, Poles, Russians, African Americans and disabled people were also besieged. Imagine being horribly abused, beaten and abused for years, Imagine being in captivity for years and one day someone tells you that you are free. The feeling of freedom is exhilarating, overwhelming and sometimes even traumatic. My research paper is based on the experiences these people had to go through as Holocaust survivors. Approximately 6 million Jews were executed during the Holocaust. Before the Nazis conquered Germany there were about 9.5 million Jews, or about 1.7% of Europe. There were several Jewish cultures in Europe. At the end of the Holocaust only about 1/3 of the Jews survived, leaving only about 3 million people. By 1950, 1.5 million Jews were living in America, escaping the horror that Germany had become. Jehovah's Witnesses, of whom around 30,000 were German, were also eliminated. Only about 20,000 of them were still practicing during the Holocaust. About 90% of them survived the Holocaust. Homosexuals were also targeted during this time... half of the document... it is unknown that he was sent to a concentration camp, perhaps because he was black and they didn't think he would be Jewish or more likely because he had an American passport . A survivor once said, “For me the Holocaust is not over.” Living through the Holocaust was a very traumatic experience even for those who did not survive. Even if the children of survivors did not experience the Holocaust, they are sometimes traumatic because of what their parents had to go through. Works Cited• U. (nd). Survivors and victims. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved November 5, 2013, from http://www.ushmm.org/remember/the-holocaust-survivors-and-victims-resource-center/survivors-and-victims• Starman, Hannah. “Generations of Trauma: Victimhood and Perpetuation of Abuse in Holocaust Survivors.” History and Anthropology 17.4 (2006): 327-338. Historical reference center. Network. November 16. 2013.•