The Holocaust

**Holocaust**, wanda kuma aka sani **da Shoah**,  shine kisan kiyashin da aka yi ma Yahudawan Turai a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu. Tsakanin 1941 zuwa 1945, Jamus na Nazi da masu haɗin gwiwa sun kashe kusan Yahudawa miliyan shida a duk faɗin Turai da Jamus ta mamaye. kusan kashi biyu bisa uku na yawan Yahudawan Turai.  An yi kisan ne a cikin pogroms da harbin mai uwa da wabi kan jama'a; ta hanyar manufar halakarwa ta hanyar aiki a sansanonin taro; da kuma a ɗakunan gas da motocin iskar gas a sansanonin kawar da Jamusawa, musamman Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, da Treblinka a Poland da ta mamaye. 

Jamus ta aiwatar da zalunci bisa matakai. Bayan naɗin Adolf Hitler a matsayin shugaban gwamnati a ranar 30 ga watan Janairun 1933, gwamnatin ta gina cibiyar sadarwa ta sansanonin tarurruka a Jamus don abokan adawar siyasa da kuma waɗanda ake ganin "undesirable", tun daga Dachau a ranar 22 ga watan Maris 1933. Bayan zartar da dokar ba da izini a ranar 24 ga watan Maris,  wadda ta ba wa Hitler ikon mulkin kama-karya, gwamnati ta fara ware Yahudawa daga ƙungiyoyin farar hula; wannan ya haɗa da ƙauracewa kasuwancin Yahudawa a cikin watan Afrilu 1933 da aiwatar da Dokokin Nuremberg a cikin watan Satumba 1935. A ranar 9-10 ga watan Nuwamba 1938, watanni takwas bayan da Jamus ta mamaye Ostiriya, an lalata kasuwancin Yahudawa da wasu gine-gine ko kuma aka kunna wuta a ko'ina cikin Jamus da Austriya a kan abin da aka sani da *Kristallnacht* ("Night of Broken Glass"). Bayan da Jamus ta mamaye Poland a watan Satumba na 1939, wanda ya haifar da yakin duniya na biyu, gwamnatin ta kafa ghettos don ware Yahudawa. A ƙarshe, an kafa dubban sansanoni da sauran wuraren tsare mutane a cikin ƙasashen Turai da Jamus ta mamaye.

Rarraba Yahudawa a cikin ghettos ya ƙare a cikin manufar kawar da Nazis da ake kira Solution na Ƙarshe ga Tambayar Yahudawa, wanda manyan jami'an gwamnati suka tattauna a taron Wannsee a Berlin a cikin watan Janairu 1942. Yayin da sojojin Jamus suka kame yankuna a Gabas, duk matakan adawa da Yahudawa sun kasance masu tsattsauran ra'ayi. Ƙarƙashin haɗin kai na SS, tare da kwatance daga mafi girman jagorancin jam'iyyar Nazi, an yi kisan gilla a cikin Jamus, a cikin dukan Turai da ta mamaye, da kuma cikin yankunan da ke karkashin ikon abokan Jamus. Rundunar 'yan sanda da ake kira *Einsatzgruppen*, tare da hadin gwiwar sojojin Jamus da masu haɗin gwiwar gida, sun kashe kusan 1.3.&nbsp;Yahudawa miliyan a cikin yawan harbe-harbe da pogroms daga lokacin rani na 1941. A tsakiyar 1942, ana korar wadanda abin ya shafa daga ghettos a fadin Turai a cikin jiragen kasa na jigilar kaya zuwa sansanonin kawar da su, inda, idan sun tsira daga tafiya, an yi musu iskar gas, aiki ko duka har su mutu, ko kashe su ta hanyar cututtuka, yunwa, sanyi, gwaje-gwajen likita. ko a lokacin tattakin mutuwa. An ci gaba da kashe-kashen har zuwa karshen yakin duniya na biyu a Turai a watan Mayun 1945.

An fahimci Holocaust a matsayin kisan kare dangi na Yahudawa, amma a lokacin Holocaust  (1933-1945), kisan gilla na sauran ƙungiyoyin jama'a ya faru. Waɗannan sun haɗa da Romawa, Poles, Ukrainians, fararen hula na Soviet da fursunonin yaƙi, da sauran al'ummomin da aka yi niyya. Ƙungiyoyin ƙanana kuma sun fuskanci tsanantawa mai tsanani na Nazi, kamar su Shaidun Jehovah, Baƙar fata Jamus, naƙasassu, ’yan gurguzu, da ’yan luwadi.  

## Terminology and scope

### Kalmomi
 
An yi amfani da kalmar *Holocaust* na farko a cikin ma'anarta ta zamani a cikin shekarar 1895 ta *[[New York Times|The New York Times]]* don kwatanta kisan kiyashin da sojojin Ottoman suka yi wa Kiristocin Armeniya.  Kalmar ta fito daga ;  *hólos*, "whole" +  *kaustós*, "hadaya ta ƙonawa".  Kalmar Littafi Mai Tsarki *shoah* (), ma'ana "calamity" (kuma ana amfani da ita don nufin "destruction" tun tsakiyar zamanai), ya zama daidaitaccen kalmar Ibrananci don kisan Yahudawan Turai. A cewar *Haaretz*, marubucin Yehuda Erez na iya zama farkon wanda ya bayyana abubuwan da suka faru a Jamus a matsayin *shoah*. *Davar* da kuma daga baya *Haaretz* duka sun yi amfani da kalmar a cikin watan Satumba 1939.  

A ranar 3 ga watan Oktoba 1941 *Ibrananci na Amurka* ya yi amfani da kalmar "kafin Holocaust", a fili don komawa ga halin da ake ciki a Faransa,  da kuma a cikin watan Mayu 1943 *New York Times*, yana tattauna taron Bermuda, yana magana da "dubban daruruwan Yahudawan Turai har yanzu suna tsira daga Holocaust na Nazi".  A cikin shekarar 1968 ɗakin karatu na Majalisa ya ƙirƙiri sabon nau'in, "Holocaust, Bayahude (1939-1945)". 

Wannan kalmar ta shahara a cikin Amurka ta hanyar NBC mini-series  (1978) game da dangin almara na Yahudawan Jamus,  kuma a cikin watan Nuwamba waccan shekarar an kafa Kwamitin Shugaban Kasa kan Holocaust.  Yayin da ƙungiyoyin da ba na Yahudawa suka fara haɗa kansu a matsayin waɗanda aka kashe Holocaust, Yahudawa da yawa sun zaɓi su yi amfani da kalmomin Ibrananci *Shoah* ko *Churban*.   Nazis sun yi amfani da kalmar "Final solution to the Jewish question" (German). 

### Ma'anarsa
Masana tarihi na Holocaust yawanci suna bayyana Holocaust a matsayin kisan kare dangi na Yahudawa na Turai da Nazi Jamus da masu haɗin gwiwa suka yi tsakanin 1941 da 1945.  Donald Niewyk da Francis Nicosia, a cikin *The Columbia Guide to Holocaust* (2000), sun yarda da ma'anar. wanda ya haɗa da Yahudawa, Romawa, da nakasassu: "Kisan tsarin da gwamnati ta yi na dukan ƙungiyoyin da aka ƙaddara bisa ga gado".  

Sauran kungiyoyin da aka yi niyya bayan Hitler ya zama Chancellor na Jamus a cikin watan Janairu 1933  sun haɗa da waɗanda Nazis ke kallon su a matsayin marasa ƙarfi (wasu mutanen Slavic, musamman Poles da Rashawa,  Romawa, da nakasassu), da waɗanda aka yi niyya saboda imaninsu ko halayensu (kamar Shaidun Jehobah, ’yan gurguzu, da ’yan luwadi).  Peter Hayes ya rubuta cewa zaluncin wadannan kungiyoyi bai kai na Yahudawa ba. Misali, mu’amalar da ‘yan Nazi suka yi wa ’yan Slavs sun kunshi “bautar da kai da tauyewa a hankali”, yayin da wasu Slavs suka sami tagomashi; Hayes ya lissafa 'yan Bulgaria, Croats, Slovaks, da wasu 'yan Ukrain.  Sabanin haka, a cewar ɗan tarihi Dan Stone, Hitler ya ɗauki Yahudawa a matsayin " *Gegenrasse* : 'ƙirar tseren'&nbsp;... ba dan adam bane kwata-kwata." 

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