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Survivors of Buchenwald.

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The Holocaust. It is the general term for the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate and systematic state-sponsored extermination that Nazi Germany planned and executed under Adolf Hitler.

By By TIM WIEDERAENDERS, Managing Editor April 20, 2009