Aside from Jews, who was rounded up during the Holocaust?

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire. read more

Lots of foreign workers were also rounded up and sent to Germany to work for the war effort. In Poland the Germans would cordon of an entire street, pick up everyone of working age, and send them to Germany. The term for this was ‘rafal’. read more

They had a register of all the Jews in town and they held a roll-call to make sure we were all there. Every Jew in the town – Hungarian, Polish, German, British – was there. One old woman was so ill she had to be carried. read more