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Shoah
Holocaust
The mass murder of Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime during World War II
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A sacrifice to a god that is completely burned to ashes

in the holocaust or burnt-offering of Moses, the gall was cast away: for, as Ben Maimon instructeth, the inwards, whereto the gall adhereth, were taken out with the crop (according unto the law,) which the priest did not burn, but cast unto the east .

holocaust
The annihilation or near-annihilation of a group of animals or people, whether by natural or deliberate agency (e.g., “nuclear holocaust”)
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The state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group. In particular (and often with an initial capital) the “Final Solution”, a euphemism used by the Nazis to describe the mass killing of Jews and others either in camps equipped with industrial gassing and crematorium equipment or by more conventional means
holocaust
{n} a whole burnt sacrifice, a burnt-offering
Holocaust
{i} the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II
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The act of genocide carried out by Germany on the Jewish population of Europe
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{i} total devastation, great disaster, complete destruction by fire; burnt offering; mass killing, great massacre
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The annihilation or near-annihilation of a group of animals or people, whether by natural or deliberate agency (eg "nuclear holocaust")
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a sacrifice or major destruction The extermination of 6 million Jews in World War II is described as 'The Holocaust'
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A holocaust is an event in which there is a lot of destruction and many people are killed, especially one caused by war. A nuclear holocaust seemed a very real possibility in the '50s
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an act of great destruction and loss of life
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The destruction of European Judaism by the Naziz; also known as Shoah (Hebrew: 'extermination') The destruction of European Judaism by the Naziz; also known as Shoah (Hebrew: 'extermination')
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1 The murder of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II 2 Generically, any great loss of human life or any almost total destruction, especially by fire
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A sacrifice to a god that is completely burned to ashes. The following usages are derived
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The Holocaust is used to refer to the killing by the Nazis of millions of Jews during the Second World War. Hebrew Shoah Systematic state-sponsored killing of Jewish men, women, and children and others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Nazis made no secret of their anti-Semitism before coming to power in 1933. Once they gained control of the government, they adopted increasingly barbaric methods against the Jews, whom they considered subhuman, in the expanding territories under German rule. The Holocaust climaxed in the "final solution," the attempted extermination of European Jewry. Adolf Hitler's persecution of Jews in Germany began soon after he became chancellor. Initially, the Nazis called for a boycott of Jewish businesses, and Jews were dismissed from the civil service. Under the Nürnberg Laws (1935), Jews lost their citizenship. Almost every synagogue in Germany was destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, and thereafter Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps or forced into ghettos. German victories in the early years of World War II (1939-45) brought most of European Jewry under the control of the Nazis and their satellites. As German armies moved eastward into Poland, the Balkans, and the Soviet Union, special mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, rounded up and killed Jews, Roma (Gypsies), communists, political leaders, and intellectuals. Other groups targeted by the Nazis included homosexuals, the mentally retarded, physically disabled, and emotionally disturbed. After the Wannsee Conference (1942), Jews from all over occupied Europe were systematically evacuated to concentration and extermination camps, where they were either killed or forced into slave labour. Underground resistance movements were active in several countries, and Jewish risings took place against overwhelming odds in the ghettos of Poland (see Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). Individuals such as Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands by their efforts; whether the Allied governments and the Vatican could have done more to aid Jews has long been a matter of controversy. By the end of the war, an estimated six million Jews and millions of others had been killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators
holocaust
The state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group. In particular (and often with an initial capital) the "Final Solution", a euphemism used by the Nazis to describe the mass killing of Jews and others either in camps equipped with industrial gassing and crematorium equipment or by more conventional means
holocaust
the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
holocaust
an act of great destruction and loss of life the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
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Term devised in the late 1950's to describe the Nazi program of the wholesale physical annihilation of European Jewry Connotes an unprecedented phenomenon of human destruction By the end of World War II, it was estimated that some 6 million Jews had perished as a result of the systematic killing program of the Nazis
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A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations
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(from the Greek term for a burnt offering) The systematic Nazi destruction of European Jewry which began in 1933 when Adolph Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany This tragic event reduced the world's Jewish population by over one third
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Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship
the holocaust

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    the ho·lo·caust

    Türkische aussprache

    dhi hälıkôst

    Aussprache

    /ᴛʜē ˈhäləˌkôst/ /ðiː ˈhɑːləˌkɔːst/
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