Jews in the Holocaust

Although there were more than 11 million people killed in total during the Holocaust, the original target and most widely affected population was the Jewish population. It started in Germany, and then moved to include Jews in Austria, Poland, and other countries that were invaded by Nazi power throughout World War II. The Nazi ideology called for a Master Race and Hitler's propaganda helped build up the claims that Jewish people were 'less than' and that their existence was preventing society from thriving and keeping Germany from being a world power like it should be.
 
Because of the propaganda and the charm of Hitler and other Nazi leaders, a large following developed. Once Hitler took office in Germany in 1933, the Jews were already on a shortlist to be 'exterminated' from society. Hitler created the Four Year Plan and the Final Solution, which were both plans to get Jews out of Germany by any means necessary. As it turned out, 'any means necessary' started with discrimination and taking away rights, but ended with cold-blooded murder of more than 6 million Jews throughout the course of the war.
 
A lot of Jewish families were persecuted during the Holocaust, but there were also some that escaped. They either managed to hide out well enough to avoid capture or they fled the country safely to a place where they wouldn't be discovered and punished for their escape. These people, as well as survivors from concentration camps and other imprisonment situations throughout German-occupied Europe, have been telling their stories for years. Some people are still in hiding, in a sense, as they don't want to come forward and relive the experience. There are several survivors, however, who have shared their tales.
 
One of the most notable Jewish stories of the Holocaust is the Diary of Anne Frank, which is the publication of a young Jewish girl's diary from their time in hiding before being captured and being moved to the camps. While the girl, her sister, and her mother perished at the hands of the Nazis, her father Otto made it out of the camps alive and saw to it that the book was published to get their story out there.
 
Today, there are countless accounts of the Holocaust, from historical and personal perspectives alike, giving people the chance to learn about this event and what it involved. There have been thousands of books and movies made on the subject, as well.