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- Dictionaryholocaust/ˈhɒləkɔːst/
noun
- 1. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war: "a nuclear holocaust"
- 2. a Jewish sacrificial offering that was burned completely on an altar. historical
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The Holocaust was the state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews, Romani people, the intellectually disabled, political dissidents and homosexuals by the...
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Adolf Hitler was leader of the Nazi Party who rose to become...
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The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race was given a name, “ genocide,” by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born jurist who served as an adviser to the U.S. Department of War during World War II.
a large amount of destruction, esp. by fire or heat, or the killing of large numbers of people: a nuclear holocaust. the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the systematic murder of many people, esp. Jews, by the Nazis during World War II.
The Holocaust was a period in history at the time of World War Two (1939-1945), when millions of Jews were murdered because of who they were. The killings were organised by Germany's Nazi party,...
The Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. This programme of targeted mass murder was a central part of the Nazis’ broader plans to create a new world order based on their ideology.
One of history’s darkest chapters, the Holocaust was the systematic killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939–45).
The word Holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God. This word was chosen because in the ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program—the extermination camps —the bodies of the victims were consumed whole in crematoria and open fires.
