A timeline of the Holocaust is detailed in the events listed below. Also referred to as the Shoah (in Hebrew), the Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators. About 1.5 million of the victims were children. Two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe were murdered. The following timeline has been compiled from a variety of sources including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Timeline See also Timeline of antisemitism Timeline of Jewish history Timeline of deportations of French Jews to death camps Timeline of the Holocaust in Norway Timeline of Treblinka extermination camp History of the Jews during World War II References Holocaust Holocaust The Holocaust-related lists