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Hol·o·caust

/ˈhäləˌkôst/

noun
- 1. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war: "a nuclear holocaust"
- ▪ the mass murder of Jewish people under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups such as Romani, gay people, and disabled people, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
- 2. a Jewish sacrificial offering that was burned completely on an altar. historical
Word Origin Middle English: from Old French holocauste, via late Latin from Greek holokauston, from holos ‘whole’ + kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘burn’).
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Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany carried out during the second world war
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec,... Wikipedia
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