The Holocaust and the Nakba

Historiography on the two events

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Nakba

Precipitating events

* Background

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* Mandatory Palestine
* 1947 partition plan
* Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine

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* 1948 Palestine war

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* Civil war in Palestine
* Plan Dalet
* Deir Yassin massacre
* Battle of Haifa
* Israeli Declaration of Independence
* Arab–Israeli War
* Timeline
* Expulsion from Lydda and Ramle
* Transfer Committee

1948 expulsion and flight

* Palestinian refugees
* Camps
* Palestinian return to Israel
* Right of return
* Present absentee
* UN Resolution 194
* UNRWA
* Hebraization of Palestinian place names
* Paraguay plan

Discourse

* Causes
* New Historians
* Nakba denial
* Nakba Law

Notable writers

* Aref al-Aref
* Yoav Gelber
* Efraim Karsh
* Rashid Khalidi
* Walid Khalidi
* Nur Masalha
* Benny Morris
* Ilan Pappé
* Edward Said
* Tom Segev
* Avraham Sela
* Avi Shlaim
* Constantin Zureiq

Symbols and memory

* Palestinian key
* Handala
* Nakba Day
* Land Day
* Great March of Return
* March of Return (Israel)

Ongoing

* Ongoing Nakba
* Palestinian genocide accusation
* Gaza genocide

Lists

* List of depopulated towns and villages
* Estimates of the number of Palestinians who fled

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The Holocaust

Jews on selection ramp at Auschwitz, May 1944

Responsibility

|  Nazi Germany

People

* Major perpetrators
* Adolf Hitler
* Heinrich Himmler
* Joseph Goebbels
* Heinrich Müller
* Reinhard Heydrich
* Adolf Eichmann
* Odilo Globocnik
* Theodor Eicke
* Richard Glücks
* Ernst Kaltenbrunner
* Rudolf Höss
* Christian Wirth

Organizations

* Nazi Party
* Gestapo
* Schutzstaffel (SS)
* Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV)
* Einsatzgruppen
* Sturmabteilung (SA)
* Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT)
* Wehrmacht
* Trawniki men

Collaborators during World War II

Nazi ideologues

Early policies

* Racial policy
* Nazi eugenics
* Nuremberg Laws
* Haavara Agreement
* Madagascar Plan
* Forced euthanasia

Victims

* Jews
* Romani people (Gypsies)
* Poles
* Soviet POWs
* Slavs in Eastern Europe
* Homosexuals
* People with disabilities

Ghettos

* Będzin
* Białystok
* Budapest
* Kaunas
* Kraków
* Łódź
* Lublin
* Lwów
* Minsk
* Riga
* Sosnowiec
* Warsaw
* Vilnius

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Jewish ghettos in
German-occupied Poland

* List of selected ghettos

Camps

|  Nazi extermination camps

* Auschwitz II-Birkenau
* Bełżec
* Chełmno
* Jasenovac
* Majdanek
* Sajmište
* Sobibor
* Treblinka

Nazi concentration camps

* Auschwitz I
* Bergen-Belsen
* Bogdanovka
* Buchenwald
* Dachau
* Dora
* Gonars (Italy)
* Gross-Rosen
* Herzogenbusch
* Janowska
* Kaiserwald
* Mauthausen-Gusen
* Neuengamme
* Rab
* Ravensbrück
* Sachsenhausen
* Salaspils
* Stutthof
* Transnistria (Romania)
* Theresienstadt
* Uckermark
* Warsaw

Transit and collection camps

Belgium

* Breendonk
* Mechelen

France

* Gurs
* Drancy

Italy

* Bolzano

Netherlands

* Amersfoort
* Westerbork

Slovakia

* Sereď

Divisions

* SS-Totenkopfverbände
* Concentration Camps Inspectorate
* Politische Abteilung
* Sanitätswesen

Extermination methods

* Gas van
* Gas chamber
* Extermination through labour
* Einsatzgruppen
* Human medical experimentation

Atrocities

|  Pogroms

* Kristallnacht
* Bucharest
* Dorohoi
* Iași
* Izieu
* Szczuczyn
* Jedwabne
* Plungė
* Radziłów pogrom
* Kaunas
* Lviv (Lvov)
* Marseille
* Tykocin
* Vel' d'Hiv
* Wąsosz

Einsatzgruppen

* Babi Yar
* Bydgoszcz
* Częstochowa
* Kamianets-Podilskyi
* Ninth Fort
* Odessa
* Piaśnica
* Ponary
* Rumbula
* Erntefest

"Final Solution"

* Wannsee Conference
* Mogilev Conference
* Operation "Reinhard"
* Holocaust trains
* Extermination camps

End of World War II

* Wola massacre
* Death marches

Resistance

* Auschwitz Protocols
* Vrba–Wetzler report
* Czesław Mordowicz
* Jerzy Tabeau
* Rudolf Vrba
* Alfréd Wetzler
* Bricha
* Jewish partisans
* Sonderkommando photographs
* Witold Pilecki
* Resistance movement in Auschwitz
* Związek Organizacji Wojskowej
* Witold's Report

Ghetto uprisings

* Warsaw
* Białystok
* Łachwa
* Częstochowa

International response

Joint Declaration by Members of
the United Nations

* Auschwitz bombing debate
* MS St. Louis
* Nuremberg trials
* Denazification

Aftermath

* Bricha
* Displaced persons
* Survivors
* Central Committee of the Liberated Jews

Reparations Agreement between
Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany

Lists

* Holocaust survivors

Deportations of French Jews
to death camps

* Survivors of Sobibor
* Timeline of Treblinka extermination camp
* Victims of Nazism
* Rescuers of Jews
* Memorials and museums

Resources

* Bibliography
* List of books about Nazi Germany

The Destruction of the
European Jews

* Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos

Functionalism versus
intentionalism

Remembrance

* Days of remembrance
* Memorials and museums
* Righteous Among the Nations

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* Genocides in history
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* Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders
* Prevention
* Psychology
* Recognition politics
* Risk factors
* Stages
* Types
* Anti-Indigenous
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Related topics

* Compulsory sterilization
* Democide
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The Holocaust and the Nakba have been regarded as interrelated events in discussions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, both historically and in the way these two tragedies have influenced perceptions of the conflict by both parties.[1] In Israel, all Israeli Jews are considered survivors of the Holocaust who must implement the imperative of never again in regards to being a Jewish victim.[2] The uniqueness of the Holocaust is emphasized and linkage between it and the Nakba is often rejected.[3][4] The 2018 book The Holocaust and the Nakba argues that "unless we can hold these two moments in our hearts and minds as part of the same story, there can be no moving forward in the seemingly unmovable conflict that is Israel-Palestine".[4]

## Historical relationship

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Prior to the Holocaust, some Zionists had opposed the founding of an ethnocentric Jewish state, but their view changed during the 1940s, when Jews and Zionists began to become aware of the scale of the damage which was done to the Jewish culture and religion during the Holocaust.[5] David Ben-Gurion changed his view of Arab self-determination, deciding that it could not be allowed in a Jewish state.[6] In one of his speeches in which he addressed the Biltmore Program, he stated that after the Holocaust, "do we not have the right this time to demand rectification for our historical indignity, for the discrimination that all the nations have committed against us, and to demand that they give us the same status as all the other nations?"[7] In 1947 and 1948, 700,000 Palestinians—80 percent of the territory's Arab population—fled or were expelled from the territory that became Israel.[8][9] Both during the Holocaust and the Nakba, there was large-scale looting of the property of the victims.[10]

In 1949, Polish–Jewish Holocaust survivors Genya and Henryk Kowalski arrived in Israel. They were offered a formerly Palestinian house in Jaffa, but they refused to move into it. Genya Kowalski later explained, "it reminded us how we had to leave the house and everything behind when the Germans arrived and threw us into the ghetto... I did not want to do the same thing that the Germans did."[11] Their decision to refuse looted Palestinian property was exceptional.[12]

In discussions about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Holocaust and the Nakba have been regarded as interrelated events, both historically and currently, because of the way in which these two tragedies have influenced both parties' perceptions of the conflict.[1] Omer Bartov says "the Holocaust and the Nakba were both parallel and irreconcilable events."[13] However, in contrast to the Holocaust, which demonstrably ended, the Nakba is considered in some conceptual frameworks to be still ongoing.[14]

## Historiography

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The Holocaust is a universalized memory in Western culture and has tended to block out the memory of the Nakba.[15][16] According to Nina Fischer, both events "function as cultural traumas and are central to the collective memory and identity of the two peoples".[9] Both the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, HaShoah, and the Arabic Al-Nakba, translate as "the catastrophe".[17]

### Israel

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In Israel, all Israeli Jews are considered survivors of the Holocaust who must implement the imperative of never again in regards to being a Jewish victim.[2] The uniqueness of the Holocaust is emphasized, non-Jewish victims of Nazi Germany are sidelined, and any linkage between the Holocaust and the Nakba is rejected.[3][4]

According to Zionist historiography, the formation of the State of Israel in 1948 was the "culmination of the long Jewish quest for rights and justice".[18] Israeli historian Benny Morris argues that the Zionist fighters were motivated by the Holocaust, among other factors.[19] The Israeli view of the 1948 Arab–Israeli war holds that Israel had "no alternative" in the war and fought with purity of arms.[20] The mainstream view in Israel is that Arabs left the country voluntarily in response to calls from the Arab leadership, although in the 21st century more diverse views have been expressed.[21] The Israeli state has made an effort to erase the memory of the Nakba, destroying Palestinian villages and avoiding mentioning the issue in history books. While some Israelis acknowledge a tragedy while denying Zionist responsibility for it, others proclaim the Nakba a myth and "a collection of tall tales".[22]

Portrayal of Arabs as Nazis is common in the discourse of the Arab–Israeli conflict,[23][24] as is depicting Palestinian anti-Zionism as motivated by antisemitism.[25] According to Joseph A. Massad, "Israel's insistence on its vulnerability reflected a conscious strategy".[23] The 1961 trial of Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann was an opportunity to connect Arabs to Nazis.[25] The descriptive Nazification of the Palestinian people was a hallmark of the policy of Menachem Begin's Likud Party.[26] The height of this phenomenon occurred in 2015 when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu falsely accused the Palestinian Amin al-Husseini of starting the Holocaust.[27]

Many Israelis argue that the Holocaust and the Nakba cannot be compared.[23] According to Shira Stav, one flaw with Israeli representations that attempt to bridge this gap is the absence of Palestinian voices and the tendency to present Israeli soldiers as traumatized victims.[28] According to a paper by Israeli Holocaust, conflict and peace researcher Dan Bar-On and Rutgers professor Saliba Sarsar, it was only at the turn of the 21st century that Israeli Jewish and Palestinian intellectuals "found the courage" to bridge the gap, conceptually, between the Holocaust and the Nakba.[29] On the Israeli Jewish side, Bar-On and Sarsar cite Ilan Gur-Zeev and Ilan Pappé's 2003 paper Beyond the Destruction of the Other's Collective Memory: Blueprints for a Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue as an early call for the Holocaust and the Nakba "to be examined within a mutual context", that highlighted, without claiming equivalence, "the thread that ties them to the collective psyche of both people".[29]

### Germany

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After the 1952 Reparations Agreement with Germany, Moshe Sharett suggested paying some of the reparations money to Palestinian refugees. This was rejected because it would have meant linking the Holocaust and the Nakba.[30][31] Ian S. Lustick argues that the Reparations Agreement could serve as a model for a future Israeli–Palestinian peace deal. Lustick argues additionally that "if reconciliation has been possible between Israel and Germany, it cannot be said to be impossible for Israel and Palestine".[32]

Germany's criticism in the 1970s of Israel's unilateral border changes and settlement policies in the Palestinian territories it had occupied, influenced in part, it has been argued, the De facto annexation of Jerusalem in July 1980 with the Jerusalem Law. This may also have been a response to the Venice Declaration a month earlier, in June, when the European Economic Community recognized the right of Palestinians to self-determination and to participate in peace negotiations. A harsh official Israeli communiqué branded the latter as a second Munich (where European powers acknowledged the German Annexation of Sudetenland): Palestinians were framed as regenerated Nazis and Europeans favorable to their cause likened to Neville Chamberlain.[26] When West Germany eventually moved towards recognition of the PLO and the Palestinian right to self-determination in the 1980s, Israel retaliated by again bringing up the Nazi past.[33]

Daniel Marwecki argues that in the twenty-first century, the German "Staatsräson means viewing the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lens of German Holocaust memory", but the majority of Germans do not share this perspective.[34][35]

### Palestine

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In contrast, Palestinian writers draw a direct connection from the Holocaust to the Nakba and see themselves as the final victim of the Nazis.[20] On the Palestinian side, Bar-On and Sarsar credit Azmi Bishara (1996), Edward Said (1997) and Naim Ateek (2001) as early pioneers of the notion of connecting Palestinian acknowledgement of the Holocaust to Israeli Jewish recognition of the Nakba. In his 1992 work Between Place and Space, Bishara is quoted as arguing: "In order for the victim to forgive, he must be recognized as a victim. That is the difference between a historic compromise and a cease-fire."[29] In an essay, Said criticized the use of comparisons between the two events as a means of delegitimizing the other side or justifying present-day violence and oppression.[36] He stated that connecting the Holocaust to the Nakba was "understanding what is universal about a human experience under calamitous conditions. It means compassion, human sympathy, and utter recoil from the notion of killing people for ethnic, religious, or nationalist reasons".[37]

One response in Palestine and the Arab world to the Western view of the Holocaust as the ultimate evil is Holocaust denial. According to Israeli sociologist Sammy Smooha, Holocaust denial by Palestinians is a kind of protest "to express strong objection to the portrayal of the Jews as the ultimate victim and to the underrating of the Palestinians as a victim".[38] According to Gilbert Achcar, Israel especially and other Western countries to a lesser extent underestimate Arab expressions of sympathy for Holocaust victims.[38]

### International perspectives

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Raphael Lemkin, the inventor of the concept of genocide, supported Zionism and likely considered the Nakba justified in line with mainstream Zionist views. Although he championed the independence of "small nations", especially the Jews, Lemkin did not believe in granting independence to groups, such as Palestinian Arabs, that he thought were not sufficiently developed to qualify as nations.[39] In his 2021 book The Problems of Genocide, historian A. Dirk Moses argues that the universalization of the Holocaust in the definition of genocide has served to exclude other acts—including the Nakba—from moral opprobrium. Moses writes, "Today, this regime ascribes Palestinians the role of the villains in a global drama about preventing genocide and a 'second Holocaust' for resisting colonization of and expulsion from their land."[40]

Some historians such as Moses and Donald Bloxham have criticized the perceived uniqueness of the Holocaust, and instead view it and the Nakba as part of broader trends of settler colonialism and ethnic nationalism leading to genocide and ethnic cleansing in the European rimlands.[41] There is a general consensus that colonialism is a valuable frame of analysis for Nazism and the Holocaust.[42] Historian Omer Bartov writes that various competing nationalisms in east-central Europe excluded Jews. Their negative treatment by non-Jewish neighbors during and after the Holocaust "by all accounts... rendered many of them indifferent and callous and at times vengeful toward the Arab population they encountered in Palestine".[43]

## Literature

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Warsaw Ghetto boy, which has been used in comparisons between the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Some Israeli–Jewish writers have addressed both the Holocaust and Nakba in their work. As early as 1949, in his novella Hirbet Hiz'ah, S. Yizhar dealt with the expulsion of Palestinians by Israeli forces, the narrator directly comparing the plight of Palestinian refugees to that of Jewish refugees.[44] In an interview, Yizhar explained that the action of expelling Palestinians contradicted his earlier beliefs about what Zionism would be.[45] In a letter, Israeli minister of agriculture Aharon Zisling expressed his revulsion at the al-Dawayima massacre, stating: "Nazi acts have been committed by Jews as well".[46] In 1952, Avot Yeshurun published the poem "Passover on Caves" in Haaretz, he later explained the poem: "The Holocaust of European Jewry and the Holocaust of Palestinian Arabs, a single Holocaust of the Jewish People. The two gaze directly into one another's face."[47] These few dissenting responses came soon after the Nakba, when the Holocaust was also a recent event.[48]

In 1969 the Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani published a novel, Return to Haifa, in which a Palestinian couple who had fled Haifa during the Nakba, return to their home city, and encounter a Jewish couple – the husband is a Holocaust survivor, who, on finding their empty home, occupied it and raised the young boy they found there as a Jew. This son of the Palestinian couple, Dov, is engaged in military service with the IDF, while their other son in Ramallah has joined the PLO's fedayeen. The novel explores the tensions that arise from the interactions of these two traumatically displaced families.[49]

Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury's epic novel Bab Al-Shams (Gate of the Sun), originally published in 1998, tells the history of Palestine.[9]

Palestinian-American writer Susan Abulhawa's bestselling novel Mornings in Jenin (2010) covers the history of a Palestinian family from the 1930s until 2002. Although the book portrays anti-Arab racism and settler colonialism, it also engages with the Holocaust.[50] The novel's protagonists are a Jewish couple who are Holocaust survivors and a Palestinian couple displaced by the Nakba. The latter have one child, David, who is separated from his parents and adopted by the Jewish couple who are infertile. David later fights against his younger Palestinian brothers after the 1967 war during the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. By the third generation, the families achieve reconciliation with some of them living together in the United States.[51]

The Warsaw Ghetto boy, an iconic image of the Holocaust, has been used in comparisons with the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, especially in the award-winning film Waltz with Bashir.[52]

The 2018 book The Holocaust and the Nakba makes the case that "unless we can hold these two moments in our hearts and minds as part of the same story, there can be no moving forward in the seemingly unmovable conflict that is Israel-Palestine".[4]

## Consequences

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Hannah Arendt wrote that the formation of Israel solved the Jewish question in Europe, but "merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of stateless".[53] She criticized the way that Jewish historians had portrayed Jews "not [as] history-makers but history-sufferers, preserving a kind of eternal identity of goodness whose monotony was disturbed only by the equally monotonous chronicle of persecutions and pogroms". In her view, this perception of Jewish history allowed the Holocaust and the Arab–Israeli conflict to be presented as parts of a continuum of persecution of Jews.[54]

According to Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg "a joint Arab-Jewish public deliberation on the traumatic memories of these two events is not only possible, however challenging and disruptive it may be, but also fundamental for producing an egalitarian and inclusive ethics of binationalism in Israel/Palestine".[55]

Elias Khoury states that "The Holocaust and the Nakba are not mirror images, but the Jew and the Palestinian are able to become mirror images of human suffering if they disabuse themselves of the delusion of exclusionist, national ideologies." He views setting aside these ideologies as part of a universal struggle against racism.[56]

## See also

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* Armenian genocide and the Holocaust
* Libyan genocide and the Holocaust
* Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany
* Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world

## Citations

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1. ^ a b Bashir & Goldberg 2014, p. 78.
2. ^ a b Wermenbol 2021, pp. 306–307.
3. ^ a b Wermenbol 2021, p. 307.
4. ^ a b c d Rose 2018, p. 353.
5. ^ Shumsky 2018, p. 231.
6. ^ Shumsky 2018, p. 23.
7. ^ Shumsky 2018, p. 216.
8. ^ Moses 2021b, p. 332.
9. ^ a b c Fischer 2020, p. 2.
10. ^ Confino 2018, p. 143.
11. ^ Confino 2018, pp. 135, 139.
12. ^ Confino 2018, p. 136.
13. ^ Bartov 2023, p. 152.
14. ^ Wermenbol 2021, p. 304.
15. ^ Fierke 2014, pp. 787–788.
16. ^ Moses 2021b, pp. 16, 482.
17. ^ Fierke 2014, p. 804.
18. ^ Bartov 2019, p. 25.
19. ^ Bergen et al. 2021, p. 172.
20. ^ a b Wermenbol 2021, pp. 307–308.
21. ^ Fischer 2020, p. 3.
22. ^ Confino 2018, p. 138.
23. ^ a b c Stav 2012, p. 89.
24. ^ Marwecki 2020, p. 93.
25. ^ a b Marwecki 2020, pp. 93–94.
26. ^ a b Marwecki 2020, p. 161.
27. ^ Marwecki 2020, p. 225.
28. ^ Stav 2012, pp. 95–96.
29. ^ a b c Bar-On & Sarsar 2004.
30. ^ Marwecki 2020, p. 55.
31. ^ Lustick 2006, p. 54.
32. ^ Lustick 2006, pp. 67–68.
33. ^ Marwecki 2020, p. 168.
34. ^ Marwecki 2020, p. 196.
35. ^ Moses 2021a.
36. ^ Stav 2012, p. 90.
37. ^ Khoury 2020, pp. 13–14.
38. ^ a b Fischer 2020, p. 4.
39. ^ Moses 2021b, pp. 357–358.
40. ^ Moses 2021b, pp. 508–511.
41. ^ Khoury 2020, p. 14.
42. ^ Bergen et al. 2021, p. 176.
43. ^ Bartov 2019, pp. 32–33, 36.
44. ^ Stav 2012, pp. 85–86.
45. ^ Stav 2012, p. 87.
46. ^ Stav 2012, p. 88.
47. ^ Confino 2018, p. 137.
48. ^ Stav 2012, pp. 88–89.
49. ^ Ghanim 2019, pp. 92–113.
50. ^ Fischer 2020, pp. 2–3.
51. ^ Fischer 2020, pp. 4–5.
52. ^ Stav 2012, pp. 93–94.
53. ^ Khoury 2020, pp. 14–15.
54. ^ Stav 2012, pp. 90–91.
55. ^ Bashir & Goldberg 2014, p. 77.
56. ^ Khoury 2020, p. 13.

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## Further reading

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* Achcar, Gilbert (2010). The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-1-4299-3820-4.
* Auron, Yair (2017). The Holocaust, Rebirth, and the Nakba: Memory and Contemporary Israeli–Arab Relations. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-5949-2.
* Litvak, M.; Webman, E. (2011). From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust. Hurst. pp. 309–331. ISBN 978-1-84904-155-3.
* Musolff, Andreas (2017). "Instrumentalisation of Holocaust Memory and False Historical Analogies". The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-64796-8.
* Segal, Raz; Daniele, Luigi (5 March 2024). "Gaza as Twilight of Israel Exceptionalism: Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Unprecedented Crisis to Unprecedented Change". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–10. doi:10.1080/14623528.2024.2325804.
* Webman, Esther (2017). ""Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews"? The Holocaust as Metaphor in Public Discourse". Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 279–304. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48866-0_12. ISBN 978-3-319-48865-3.
* Zertal, Idith (2005). Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-44662-4.

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Overview|

* Evidence and documentation
* Contemporary knowledge
* Hidden children
* Timeline

Response|

* International response
* Japan
* Philippines
* Portugal
* Spain
* Sweden
* Turkey
* United States
* Vatican
* Rescue of Jews
* by Catholics
* by Poles
* Righteous Among the Nations

Camps and ghettos

| Concentration|

* Auschwitz
* Bergen-Belsen
* Buchenwald
* Dachau
* Flossenbürg
* Gross-Rosen
* Herzogenbusch
* Hinzert
* Kaiserwald
* Kauen
* Kraków-Płaszów
* Majdanek
* Mauthausen and Gusen
* Mittelbau-Dora
* Natzweiler-Struthof
* Neuengamme
* Ravensbrück
* Sachsenhausen
* Stutthof
* Vaivara
* Warsaw

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Extermination|

* Auschwitz II-Birkenau
* Belzec
* Chełmno
* Majdanek
* Sobibor
* Treblinka

Transit|

* be
* Breendonk
* Mechelen
* fr
* Gurs
* Drancy
* it
* Bolzano
* Risiera di San Sabba
* nl
* Amersfoort
* Schoorl
* Westerbork
* sk
* Sereď

Methods|

* Einsatzgruppen
* Gas van
* Gas chamber
* Extermination through labour
* Human experimentation
* Death marches

Nazi units|

* SS-Totenkopfverbände
* Concentration Camps Inspectorate
* Politische Abteilung
* Sanitätswesen

Ghettos (list)|

| Poland|

* Białystok
* Kraków
* Łódź
* Lublin
* Lwów
* Radom
* Warsaw

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Elsewhere|

* Budapest
* Kovno
* Minsk
* Riga
* Theresienstadt
* Vilna

Judenrat|

* Jewish Ghetto Police
* Reich Association of Jews in Germany
* Ústredňa Židov

Victims

| Jews|

| Roundups|

* Izieu
* Marseille
* Vel' d'Hiv

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Pogroms|

* Kristallnacht
* Bucharest
* Dorohoi
* Iași
* 1941 pogroms in eastern Poland
* Jedwabne
* Lviv
* in Lithuania
* Kaunas

"Final Solution"|

* Wannsee Conference
* Operation Reinhard
* Holocaust trains

Mass executions|

* Einsatzgruppen
* Babi Yar
* Harvest Festival
* Kamianets-Podilskyi
* Maly Trostenets
* Ninth Fort
* Odesa
* Piaśnica
* Ponary
* Rumbula

Resistance|

* Jewish partisans
* Bielski partisans
* Ghetto uprisings
* Warsaw
* Białystok
* Częstochowa

Rescue|

* Aid and Rescue Committee
* Attack on the twentieth convoy
* Kastner train
* Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
* Danish underground
* Working Group
* Żegota

Others|

* Soviet POWs
* Soviet urban residents
* Civilians targeted during anti-partisan warfare
* People with disabilities
* Romani people
* Polish leaders and intellectuals
* Homosexuals
* Jehovah's Witnesses

Responsibility

* List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust

| Organizations|

* Nazi Party
* Schutzstaffel (SS)
* Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
* Referat IV B4
* Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
* Ordnungspolizei (Orpo)
* Waffen-SS
* Wehrmacht

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Units|

* Einsatzgruppen
* Police Regiments
* Order Police battalions

Collaborators|

* Arajs Kommando
* Lithuanian Security Police
* Nederlandsche SS
* Rollkommando Hamann
* Special Brigades
* Topf and Sons
* Trawnikis
* Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
* Ypatingasis būrys

* Early elements
* Aftermath
* Remembrance

| Early elements|

* Nazi racial policy
* Nazi eugenics
* Nuremberg Laws
* Haavara Agreement
* Hitler's prophecy
* Jewish war conspiracy theory
* Jewish emigration
* Kindertransport
* Madagascar Plan
* Nisko Plan
* Forced euthanasia (Action T4)

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Aftermath|

* Depopulated shtetls
* Holocaust survivors
* Sh'erit ha-Pletah
* Bricha
* List
* Postwar violence
* Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law
* Nuremberg trials
* Eichmann trial
* Holocaust restitution
* Reparations Agreement
* Holocaust denial
* trivialization

History and memory|

* Academia
* Books and other resources
* Days of remembrance
* Education
* Films
* Lessons
* Memorials and museums
* Uniqueness
* Armenian genocide and the Holocaust
* Humor
* Righteous Among the Nations
* Yad Vashem
* Yizkor books
* "Never again"

* v
* t
* e

Nakba

Background|

* Mandatory Palestine
* Israeli Declaration of Independence
* Sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine
* New Historians
* Palestine
* Plan Dalet
* 1947 partition plan

Main articles|

* 1947–1949 Palestine war
* 1947–1948 civil war
* 1948 Arab–Israeli War
* 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight
* causes
* UNRWA
* Nakba Day
* Nakba denial
* Palestine refugee camps
* Palestinian refugee
* Palestinian right of return
* Present absentee
* Transfer Committee
* Resolution 194

Key incidents|

* The battle of Hatikvah Neighborhood (1947)
* Battle of Haifa
* Deir Yassin massacre
* Expulsion from Lydda and Ramle

Notable writers|

* Aref al-Aref
* Yoav Gelber
* Efraim Karsh
* Walid Khalidi
* Nur Masalha
* Benny Morris
* Ilan Pappé
* Tom Segev
* Avraham Sela
* Avi Shlaim
* The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem

Related categories/lists|

* Villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus

Related templates|

* Palestinians
* Arab–Israeli conflict
* Israeli–Palestinian conflict
* Gaza–Israel conflict

The Holocaust and the Nakba

* v
* t
* e

Military historiography

* Military history
* List of military museums

Pre-18th century
conflicts|

* Albigensian Crusade
* Catharism debate
* Crusades
* Islamic views
* Eighty Years' War
* Origins
* Fall of Babylon
* Gallic Wars
* Late Bronze Age collapse
* Dorian invasion
* Sea Peoples
* Peloponnesian War

18th and 19th
century conflicts|

| Coalition Wars
(1792–1815)|

* French Revolution
* Pre-revolution [fr]
* Causes
* New Russian School [ru]
* War in the Vendée
* Napoleonic era
* Invasion of Russia
* Waterloo

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* American Civil War
* Origins
* Turning point
* Franco-Prussian War
* Causes
* Paris Commune
* Great Game
* Indian Rebellion of 1857
* Causes
* Paraguayan War
* War of 1812
* Origins
* War of the Pacific
* Causes
* Myth of English aid [es]

World War I|

* Causes (Color books / Fischer thesis)
* Late Ottoman genocides (Causes of the Armenian genocide)
* Patriotic consent [fr]
* Persian famine of 1917–1919
* Powder keg of Europe
* Schlieffen Plan
* Spirit of 1914 / 1917
* Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru]

| Treaty of
Versailles|

* Reparations
* War guilt question
* Article 231
* Reichstag inquiry

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Interwar period|

* Burning of Smyrna
* Polish–Soviet War
* Causes
* Spanish Civil War
* Background

World War II|

* Causes
* "Blitzkrieg" concept
* Broad vs. narrow front
* German resistance to Nazism
* Nazi foreign policy debate

| Eastern Front|

* Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
* Soviet offensive plans
* Soviets and the Warsaw Uprising
* Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
* Winter War
* Background
* Spirit

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The Holocaust|

* Auschwitz bombing debate
* Awareness in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe
* Functionalism–intentionalism debate
* In relation to the Armenian genocide / Nakba
* Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
* Pius Wars
* "Polish death camp"
* Responsibility
* Slovakia
* Uniqueness

Pacific War|

* Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
* "Battle for Australia"
* Bengal famine
* Second Sino-Japanese War
* Nanjing Massacre

Western Front|

* Battle of France
* Guilty Men
* Résistancialisme
* Vichy France [fr]

Cold War|

* Origins
* 1948 Palestine war
* Palestinian expulsion and flight / Ongoing Nakba
* Zionism as settler colonialism
* New Historians
* Malayan Emergency
* Causes
* Algerian War
* Six-Day War
* Origins
* Iranian revolution
* Causes
* Iran–Iraq War
* Falklands War
* Sovereignty dispute
* Sri Lankan civil war
* Origins

Post-Cold War|

* Russo-Georgian War
* Background
* Responsibility
* Syrian revolution
* Causes

Related|

* Conflict thesis
* Gunpowder and gun transmission
* Torsion mangonel myth
* War and genocide

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