May 1 marked the genocide of the Jewish people and this day all Israelis save minutes of silence to remember and honor the victims of the Nazi regime, not only they feel revulsion at what happened and all that we are ashamed believe in the brotherhood of peoples, in the oneness of humankind and the equality of rights. The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of millions of Jews by the Nazi government orchestrated, they did it in a planned, organized and bureaucratic precision. The word "holocaust" of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire", the Nazis believed (or were interested in believe) that the Germans were a superior race and that Jews are inferior, not worth living, denied to the person's condition.
But we often forget that the Nazis massacred also other groups with the pretext of alleged racial inferiority and deported to the gypsies, the disabled and some Slav groups (such as Poles and Russians). Other people were persecuted for political reasons, religious or sexual orientation ocurió with communists, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals, even the exiled English Republicans suffered this terrible injustice.
The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944 and makes specific reference to the massive crimes committed against groups. A Polish Jewish lawyer trying to describe the Nazi policy of systematic killings, including the objective to eliminate European Jewry, created the word "genocide" by combining oxygen (Greek for race or tribe), with-cide (Latin for , to kill).
United Nations in 1948 adopted the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." This Convention established that "genocide is an international crime that signatory nations must" prevent and punish. " The term genocide is defined as follows:
"means genocide any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:
(a) Killing members of the group.
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
(d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
(e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. "
Well, we should not be very wise to understand that today is genocide and having one of the most reprehensible and condemnable, so long as parts of the victims became the perpetrators, is the genocide of the Palestinian people is the application of the "eye for an eye" biblical by a state, Israel, using the same system, just as organized and planned that other systems and governments once used to exterminate the "enemy" (click HERE to access a report on the indiscriminate use of new weapons by Israel).
In Spain we had a good (but bad) example of what I say with the Franco regime. An aside: I do grace those who say or think that the Basque people suffer oppression ... have when they make a list of things that are prohibited or violate rights secured to them, to me sounds like a joke that President Basque equate the "problem" with what Tibet. also remember other genocides such as the Armenian people, the African peoples, the Kurds, that of the Bosnians, the indigenous peoples and genocide means that millions of children starve without governments doing anything to solve it.
PS 1 has just happened the day to read to me "the boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, not a brilliant book but the idea has been the author on how to deal with the Holocaust has been good and has made his book is one of the most read and sold. I recommend it because it entertains and read in three sittings. 
PPD: today, May 2, marks the beginning of the English uprising against the invading French forces and was the people who took the role as the English army was at rock bottom. Guerrilla tactics were used (another English invention) to harass the forces of Napoleon and after six years of fighting the enemy was forced to leave the Iberian peninsula, this turbulent period was used by the colonies, countries brothers today, for independence and assumed Spain's disappearance from the list of maritime and global powers. What if we had remained under the aegis of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte? Who can say with safety arguments and we would not be better? (We had saved many dark passages of contemporary English history). 
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