Is the Holocaust over

Answer 1

To the surviors, no. The traumatic events will haunt them until death. It will be over in that sense when the last of the participants, on both sides, are gone.

In longer terms the Holocaust will persist until it no longer affects people. Gypsies, Jews, Homosexuals, and the mentally challenged will be haunted by its shadow for generations to come just as WW2 casts a shadow to this day.

With each generation we become farther removed from those events and eventually will be a distant historical event much like the Alamo, Spanish American war, the War of the Roses, etc.

It will ultimately be over when people no longer have to ask the question I suppose. ___ At the risk of stating the obvious, the Holocaust killings ended in 1945.