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- DictionaryHol·o·caust/ˈhäləˌkôst/
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
Oct 14, 2009 · 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 German...
Apr 9, 2024 · The Holocaust (1933–1945) was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators. 1 In addition to perpetrating the Holocaust, Nazi Germany also persecuted and murdered millions of other victims.
1. : a sacrifice (see sacrifice entry 1 sense 2) consumed by fire. 2. : a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire. a nuclear holocaust. 3. a. usually the Holocaust : the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
During the Second World War, the Nazis murdered nearly six million European Jews. This genocide is called the Holocaust. Here, you can read about its causes and backgrounds, the stages of the Holocaust, and the perpetrators.
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 Holocaust was unprecedented genocide, total and systematic, perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, with the aim of annihilating the Jewish people. The primary motivation was the Nazis' anti-Semitic racist ideology.
