"The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community."

This is a quote from the official U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website. The photo shows two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928.