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At the end of the Holocaust, millions of people had died as shown below. However, many more were saved when the war ended. 80,000 Jews were freed from Budapest, 66,000 left from Auschwitz, 40,000 were freed from Bergen-Belsen, and thousands and thousands of others were released elsewhere. Knowing his cause was hopeless, Adolf Hitler took his own life on April 30, 1945. Meanwhile, after World War II, many charges were put forth against the leaders of the Nazi party including Conspiracy, Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity. Many of the Nazi Party's top executives were found guilty at the trial and were sent to the death chamber. Many more Nazi scientists and doctors as well as SS Einsatz leaders were tried at Nuremburg. Some of those individuals were killed. Overall, around six million people were killed in the Holocaust. The killing of these people not only took the lives of these six million people, it also affected millions and millions of other people who loved these Jews. The Holocaust affected millions and, now, will live in infamy in the hearts of millions of others as the word of the atrocities during this period continue to spread each day.
Death Toll of the Jewish People
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