The Holocaust began with the Nazi party’s rise to power in Germany in 1933. Adolf Hitler and his followers then implemented a series of laws that discriminated against Jews, including stripping them of their civil rights and citizenship. In 1941, the Nazis began systematically deporting Jews from across Europe to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, where millions were killed through forced labor, starvation, medical experimentation, and execution by gas chambers. This systematic genocide is known as the Holocaust.