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Definitions of holocaust in various dictionaries:
noun - an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
noun - the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
Great or total destruction, especially by fire.
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Mass slaughter |
Fatal conflagration |
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Aug 16 2017 The Times - Concise |
Aug 3 2012 The Guardian - Quick crossword |
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"Caustic" is related to this murderous term, subject of a U.S. Memorial Museum |
International this Remembrance Day, January 27, commemorates the 1945 date on which Auschwitz was liberated |
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destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. |
Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. |
A Jewish sacrificial offering which was burnt completely on an altar. |
an act of great destruction and loss of life |
the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler |
Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire. |
The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II: "Israel emerged from the Holocaust and is defined in relation to that catastrophe ( Emanuel Litvinoff). |
A massive slaughter: "an important document in the so-far sketchy annals of the Cambodian holocaust ( Rod Nordland). |
A sacrificial offering that is consumed entirely by flames. |
a very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people: |
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The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945. Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event involving the persecution and murder of other groups, including in particular the Roma and "incurably sick", as well as ethnic Poles and other Slavs, Soviet citizens, Soviet prisoners of war, political opponents, gay men and Jehovah's Witnesses, resulting in up to 17 million deaths overall.Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the government passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society, most prominently the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. Starting in 1933, the Nazis built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and people deemed "undesirable". After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the r |