What Was the Holocaust?By: Gail Herman, Who HQ Illustrator: Jerry Hoare Series: What Was? A thoughtful and age appropriate introduction to an unimaginable eventthe Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death campssix million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti Semitism led first to humiliating anti Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern