Holocaust
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- noun
- /ˈhoʊləkɔːst/
- NSFW
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Holocausto
- Excuse me, like my parents were Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust survivors
- Holocaust victims
- Holocaust testimony
Somehow all that teaching about the Holocaust has failed.
- Somehow all that teaching about the Holocaust has failed.
- Stalin's Haltomore, Hitler's Holocaust, Mao's great Chinese famine.
- Too many people feel way too comfortable making casual Holocaust jokes right to my face.
- And what drove me was being a child of Holocaust survivors.
- As Raoul Berg famously said, the Nazi Holocaust happened.
- I support the right of Holocaust deniers to spew their nonsense.
- Yeah, So Edith, Eva Eager, she was a Holocaust survivor.
- My grandparents on my mother's side were Holocaust survivors.
- I for one don't want a bunch of his fans going and learning about Holocaust denial.
- Auschwitz, author of one of the great Holocaust narratives or Holocaust testimonies.
- I was absolutely fascinated going through the Holocaust Museum in DCI, learned a lot.
- It's in the Nazi case, in Nazi Germany, within Jewish Holocaust scholars, there is a slight division.
- Just to be clear, the Holocaust did happen.
- But before the Holocaust, There's not the Holocaust.
- They're as deprived as a Holocaust victim, as he so put it.
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My grandparents on my mother's side were Holocaust survivors.
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Did you go to the Holocaust Museum?
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Most of those who did experience the Holocaust died then.
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We can, you know, just not have a Holocaust again because we learned from the past, right?
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Oh, you guys are at the Holocaust Museum.
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Somehow all that teaching about the Holocaust has failed.
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And then there are Holocaust survivors.
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But the same thing happened to Jews in Germany during the Holocaust.
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The crimes and the suffering of the Holocaust could not be absorbed in one generation.
Academic text (1999) -
There are only a few hundred thousand Holocaust survivors left in the world.
Synonyms
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The violent killing of many people in a cruel way
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Killing many people on purpose because they are the same race, country, or religion
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Killing many people on purpose at the same time or in a short time
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A plan by the Nazis to kill millions of Jewish people during World War II
Planned killing of a whole racial or cultural group
Surface Forms
Etymology
Holocaust comes from the Greek word holokauston, made of holo- 'whole' and -kauston 'burnt'. It first meant a 'whole burnt' offering, and because that idea of 'complete destruction' fit the scale of the Nazi killings in World War II, people now use Holocaust to name that terrible mass murder.