The Holocaust Things that I learned from Notes and Mrs. Dekelbaum's speech. From Mrs. Dekelbaum's speech, I learned that the Holocaust happened 6 years before World War 2. I learned that during the Holocaust, more than six million Jews, and four million non-Jews, were killed by the Nazis. The non-Jews that were killed in the Holocaust were, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people, ill people, relatives of Jewish people, and people who helped the Jews. There is a saying about the Holocaust that says, "Not all victims were Jewish, but all Jews were victims." There was a girl named Pearl. She went through nine conc