The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews.
It reached a peak in the Holocaust.
The antisemitism during the Holocaust was just an exaggerated form of pre-Holocaust antisemitism.
Yes, and the Japanese were completely bewildered by antisemitism.
it is not. The people who perpetrated the Holocaust may have been, or the Holocaust may have some roots in antisemitism, but it is a name given to the events, it holds not prejudice, it just is.
The word is anti-Semitism, or better antisemitism(as there is no such thing as 'semitism' that Jew baiters are 'anti').
it affected them by the nazi starting the holocaust
Yes. Without long-standing prejudices against the Jews it would have been virtually impossible to demonize them in way that the Nazis did and to try to exterminate them. From a social and political point of view, one cannot simply pick on any group and exterminate it. It has often been said that antisemitism is as irrational as hating people with red hair, but of course 'redheads' have not been demonized and persecuted.
The word is antisemitism.
Matti Myllykoski has written: 'Murhatun Jumalan varjo' -- subject(s): History, Judaism, Jews, Persecutions, Christianity and antisemitism, Church history, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Antisemitism
Sheila Wiesenfeld has written: 'The roots of hatred' -- subject(s): Holocaust denial, Antisemitism, History
The word is antisemitism.