It was international mass murder
of approximately six million Jewish people.
They were treated like enemies,
especially in concentration camps.
Holocaust also means an awful systematic persecution,
deportation and extermination.
Because of the ideology of the NS,
there were not even individuals,
they had numbers instead of names
and so they got robbed of their personality.
Holocaust is the shortest word
that describes the terrible amount of killed people
who had no chance to escape.
But how strong could all be?
My name is Kora, I'm 15 years old and I'm from Germany.
When I went to Auschwitz I always had an oppressive feeling.
I also felt a kind of shame, even if I'm not guilty
because the German people in the past were the offenders.
My name is Sarah, I'm 16 years old and I'm a student from Germany.
When I think about the Holocaust,
of course I feel sympathy for all the people who died and those who survived.
For me it's unbelievable that human beings killed other human beings.
My name is Nastia, I'm 19 and I'm from Ukraine.
What does the holocaust mean to me?
It's broken human fates,
it's human sorrow that hasn't got any limits.
I'm Natalie from Poland. I'm 16
and I think that Holocaust is a symbol of pain and fight.
And it's also a lesson
about the importance of tolerance.
And what does the holocaust mean to you?