sentences:  The killing continued until the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945.The European Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event during the Holocaust era (1933–1945), in which Germany and its collaborators persecuted and murdered other groups, including ethnic Poles, Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, the Roma, the handicapped, political and religious dissidents, and gay men.The death toll of these other groups is thought to be over 11 million.