Yes a "HOLOCAUST" did happen, several actually from 1895 to 1923, but it didn't happen to the Jews, It happened to the ARMENIANS, and the Jews (Donmeh Jews aka crypto-Jews and Zionists) played a major role as "Young Turks".
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE JEWISH YOUNG TURKS
1716: A group called the “Donmeh” forms in Salonica of Sabbatai Zvi’s followers headed by Sabbatai Zvi’s successor, Baruchya Russo. By the early 1900’s, the Donmeh numbers in the hundreds of thousands. They were known as “Crypto Jews” because though outwardly appearing to be Muslims, they were still Jews following the customs of the Jewish occult Kabbala which Sabbatai Zvi taught. They continue in their fervent, (yet secret), Zionist vision.
1860: Jewish Hungarian Zionist named Arminius Vambery becomes an advisor to the Sultan Abdül Mecit while secretly working as an agent for Lord Palmerston of the British Foreign Office. Vambery tries to broker a deal between the Zionist leader Theodore Herzl and Sultan Abdul Mecit over the creation of Israel but fails.
1891: Out of the Donmeh a Zionist political group forms called The Committee of Union and Progress, later called The Young Turks. The group is headed by a Freemason Jew by the name of Emmanuel Carraso who organizes the secret Committee of Union and Progress in Geneva with the help of the Rothschilds.
1895-1896: Sephardic Jews of Salonika together with the Turks massacre Armenian Christians in Istanbul.
1902 & 1907: Two Congresses of The Young Turks meet in Paris to plan, prepare, and effect the penetration the Sultan’s army leading to the military coup of 1908.
1908: The Jewish Young Turks revolt and force the Sultan Abdul Hamid II into submission.
1909: The Jewish Young Turks rape, torture, and slaughter over 100,000 Armenians in the city of Adana, also known as Cilicia.
1914: The Jews of The Young Turks create unrest, turmoil, and bolster the paid Serbian assassin, Gavrilo Princip, which leads to World War I.
1915: The Armenian Holocaust engineered by the ruling Jews of The Young Turks, leaves 1.5 million Armenian Christians starved, tortured, and murdered.
1918: Jew Mustafa Kemal ‘Ataturk’ ascends into leadership.
1920: Russian Jewish Bolsheviks supply Ataturk iwth 10 million gold roubles, 45,000 rifles, and 300 machine guns with ammunition.
1921: Ataturk occupies the Port of Baku in conjunction with the Russian Jewish Bolsheviks ceding it to the Bolsheviks five days later. The Rothschilds are delighted.
1922: Jewish Kemalists orchestrate the burning of Smyrna resulting in the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of over 100,000 Armenian and Greek Christians left tortured, starved, raped, and dead.
THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE SIR GERALD LOWTHER’S LETTER TO SIR CHARLES HARDING, May 29, 1910
— “Shortly after the revolution in July 1908, it soon became known that many of the Young Turks’ leading members were Freemasons. It was noticed that Jews of all colours, native and foreign, were enthusiastic supporters of the new dispensation, till, as many Turks expressed it, every Hebrew became a potential spy of the Young Turks. Turks began to remark that the movement was rather a Jewish than a Turkish Revolution.” —
The New York Times, September 10, 1895 - ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST.
The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide by Yair Auron.
"With regard to the Armenians, here we must remember the past. The defunct Hamelitz, in its day, lauded the participation of the Sephardic jews together with the Turks in the massacre of the Armenians in Constantinople in 1895. ." p. 137.
“According to the paper, many Jews joined with the Mohammedans to strike against the Armenians and “pursued them to the end.” p. 146.
“It seems that the article can be read in only one way: rejoicing and ridicule of the tragedy of the Armenian victims. The writer is proud that “while this was happening to our brethren in the Turkish capital, there was a miracle apart from the miracle of the prayer shawl fringe.” Now they will be able to take the place of the Armenians in economic and commercial activity.” p. 147.
"the jews in Haskoy (a jewish quarter in Constantinople where many Armenians also lived) played a shameful part in helping the Kurds to search out the hiding places of the victims"
“The Jews led the Turks and Kurds to the homes of the Armenians". p. 151.
“We may assume that these are not all of the facts and not even all of the documentation concerning the role of the Jews—their participation in one way or another—in the massacre of the Armenians. A more comprehensive examination of the archives of Alliance in Paris may shed additional light. Nonetheless, I believe that there can be no doubt that the involvement of Jews in Constantinople in the massacre was shameful.” p. 152.
Another one of Lucy D's ilk.

The Holocaust in Historical Perspective - Yehuda Bauer
“We should properly use the term “Holocaust” to describe the policy of total physical annihilation of a nation or a people. To date, this has happened once, to the Jews under Nazism.” p 38.
https://archive.org/details/holocaustinhisto0000baue/page/38/mode/2up?view=theater
Jews have always been on the forefront of denying the Armenian Genocide/Holocaust and pretend it happened to them. The "Shoah" does not meet the criteria to be called a holocaust, let alone "The Holocaust".

Websites like CODOH and Holocaust Hand Books dispute the 6 million numerologies, so why do many of the Holocaust myths still persist? Why do the gas chamber stories still exist when forensic scientists debunk them in the 21st century?
The more the two Jewish members of this conversation emphasize the so-called "6 million Jews" number, the more people doubt it and research it to find out the real number was probably 100x lower, in the tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands and definitely not millions.
Lets have a calm discussion about the forensics of the Holocaust without emotion but dispassionate science.

"The question is: why does the Jewish community feel it necessary to exaggerate the suffering of Jews during WW2?"
That isn't the question.
"No one, not even holocaust revisionists, doubts that Jews suffered during World War 2, but the stories of soap and lampshades made from obese Jewish women, has been debunked by leading Jewish Holocaust scholars, so has the myth of the human homicidal gas chambers disguised as showers."
Soap and lampshades were debunked by evidence. Gas chambers "disguised" as showers was not debunked because the evidence supports it. What you've displayed here is, at best and most generous, is a highly superficial understanding of the events. There may have been some measures to physically disguise gas chambers as showers, and this was certainly done by the SS in the T4 "euthanasia" programme. What is definitely true is that the SS would do their best to convince the Jews that they were being taken to a disinfection/delousing facility prior to going into the main camp. Whether the inside of the gas chamber was physically disguised is irrelevant - once they're inside, it's too late.
Holocaust denial literature/media has been debunked on numerous occasions.

The title of this video made me think that the guest historian was going to deny the holocaust during WWII. Quite the contrary.

January 19, 2015
Kenneth Ellman Reviews Richard Douglas Heffner, OPEN MIND
Guest: Dawidowicz, Lucy
Theme: Holocaust Studies
Email:ke@kennethellman.com
Box 18, Newton, New Jersey 07860
The treasure of the Open Mind works by Richard Heffner is an educational resource that could and should be used by educators at all grade levels. It should not be played in the classroom and take the place of a teacher or professor. It should be assigned to watch the video and read the transcripts and then the student must write their own personal understanding of the issues brought out by that wonderful man Rutgers Professor Richard Heffner (now deceased) who interviews and discusses significant concepts with the Guest. The students should be encouraged to discuss and debate the questions explored by Richard Heffner with those very interesting people who he interviews on many and various vital subjects. These student debates with Professor or Teacher moderation would allow the students mind to learn and explore ideas in a critical manner necessary for full understanding.
As regards the comment here by “ manhattansunrise” on May 20, 2014 it is another example and reminder to us that a human being can actually maintain a delusion and refuse to believe that which is incontrovertible.
Germany gassed and burnt millions of Jews, including children and babies. Germany at that time was killing as many human beings as they could, not just Jews. But the attack upon the Jewish nation by Germany was unlike any other onslaught against any other people. Mr. “manhattansunrise” says there were no “ human extermination gas chambers”. He hides under his phony name and makes his knowingly false statements.
Mr. “manhattansunrise” and his ilk, I say that You have the full ability to do your own research in any public or university library. No one can stop you. You have the ability to communicate directly with the German Embassy or Consulate and Government and seek information and knowledge. No one can stop you. You have access to vast library material from various Universities on the internet itself. No body can stop you. SO, why engage in this fantasy that the murder and destruction of so many millions of people, Jewish and others, at the hands of Germany in Gas Chambers did not occur?! Why degrade yourself by believing such things? Do you think the German people and German Government made this up? Perhaps you think Germany is today controlled by Jews or Poles or Russians? If you had any serious interest in this subject you would review the almost unlimited number of documents and evidence available and become knowledgeable about this.
The historical record of what Germany did all over Europe, to the Jewish people and many other innocent nationalities is not in dispute by anyone who looks at the the evidence. The most easily accessible evidence, aside from all the scholarly research is:
1. The German people and German Government themselves have admitted to this massive attack upon helpless human beings. The German High Court and the German legislature have confirmed this
over and over again. Germany has made it a crime to deny the acts of human destruction and the killing Gas Chambers committed by Germany in World War Two. Germany wants to protect the truth and so should you. Germany does not want to repeat this human disaster and does not want it forgotten.
2. The War Crimes Trials, also known as the Nuremberg Trials, held by the United States and the Allies, after the German defeat, encompasses a vast amount of testimony in Court in the presence of and by the Nazi leaders and their victims. The Germans killed so many from every nationality such as Gypsies, Russian POW's, Jehovah’s Witnesses and of course Jews. If they had won the war their plan was clearly to permanently enslave and eliminate many national groups.
Some Internet resources you can reach out to are:
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1&text=overview
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nuremberg.htm
This is an old extract from a conversation with Dr. Klaus Kinkel, State Secretary for the German Ministry of Justice, many years ago on the murder of six million Jewish men, women and CHILDREN:
“Brin–These people who did the killing knew. They knew what they were doing.
Kinkel–I could tell you terrible things that I have heard from my friends in Israel. What I have heard has left me speechless. Of course we know it happened…
Brin–Does he (Dr. Kinkel) have any comments about the American Nazi lovers who are going about insisting that the Holocaust is a myth, that it never happened.
Kinkel–In my official capacity as the executive in the Federal Ministry of Justice, I can say there can be no question that the tragic Holocaust took place and this has also been declared by our Supreme Court. …”
A book that discusses this recurrent massive destruction of human beings and not limited to any one people is:“Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity” by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
Kenneth Ellman, Box 18, Newton, New Jersey 07860. Email:ke@kennethellman.com

Holocaust revisionism is very controversial, because several 21st century forensic scientists, chemists and engineers no longer believe in the 6 million Jews' were murdered WW2 atrocity propaganda, including a number of Jewish scholars like David Cole Stein.
The question is: why does the Jewish community feel it necessary to exaggerate the suffering of Jews during WW2?
No one, not even holocaust revisionists, doubts that Jews suffered during World War 2, but the stories of soap and lampshades made from obese Jewish women, has been debunked by leading Jewish Holocaust scholars, so has the myth of the human homicidal gas chambers disguised as showers.
The best video on The Internet Archive is: "one third of the holocaust", which everyone interested in this subject should watch.
The following are ground breaking booklets / pamphlets on Holocaust revisionism that everyone should study on www.Archive.org The Internet Archive.
Holocaust Revisionism Handbooks
https://archive.org/details/Holocaust_Handbooks
Introduction to the Holocaust
https://archive.org/details/IntroductionToHolocaustRevisionism
Did Six Million Really Die?
https://archive.org/details/DidSixMillionReallyDie
Holocaust Revisionism and its Political Consequences
https://archive.org/details/HolocaustRevisionismAndItsPoliticalConsequences
Holocaust Industry
https://archive.org/details/HolocaustIndustry_375
Impact and Future of Holocaust Revisionism
https://archive.org/details/ImpactAndFutureOfHistoricalRevisionism
Dissecting the Holocaust
https://archive.org/details/DissectingTheHolocaust_288
Is the Holocaust a Hoax?
https://archive.org/details/IsTheHolocaustAHoax
Hoax or Holocaust?
https://archive.org/details/HoaxOrHolocaustTheArguments
The First Holocaust Hoax for Fund Raising
https://archive.org/details/TheFirstHolocaust-JewishFundRaisingCampaignsWithHolocaustClaimsDuringAndAfterWorldWarOne
Why would any writer make up stories about the Holocaust?
https://archive.org/details/WhyWouldAnyWriterMakeUpStoriesAboutTheHolocaust