this list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious convictions, or their sexual orientation, lost their lives as a result of nazism. this list includes those whose deaths were part of the holocaust as well as people who died in other ways at the hands of the nazis during world war ii. people who died in concentration camps are listed alongside those who were murdered by the national socialists or those who chose suicide for political motives or to avoid being murdered.