The Holocaust was one of the first occurrences of genocide. It affected almost every person in the world because of how shocking and dreadful it was. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Other cases have occurred throughout history. One of which was the Bosnia-Herzegovina genocide. There are ways that these two horrible events are similar and ways in which they are completely different.
Both instances of the genocides started with war. The Bosnia-Herzegovina started with its civil war and with the Holocaust it started with WWII. The Bosnia civil war lasted for three years and the Holocaust lasted for four years. Both of these horrible events took place after a big change
