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   holocaust

   /ˈhɒləkɔːst/

   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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2. www.history.com › topics › world-war-iiHolocaust: Definition, Remembrance & Meaning | HISTORY

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   Oct 14, 2009 · The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of millions of Jews, Romani people, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime from 1933-1945.

3. www.history.com › topics › holocaustHolocaust: Definition and Facts | HISTORY

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   Holocaust. The Holocaust, during which some 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other people were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany during World War II, was one of the most horrific ...

4. aboutholocaust.org › en › factsWhat was the Holocaust? :: About Holocaust

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   The Holocaust was the attempt by Nazi Germany and its collaborators to murder the Jews of Europe. During the six years of World War II, systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored and government-organized persecution and oppression resulted in the deaths of six million European Jews from across the continent. The persecution of Jews in Germany ...

5. www.britannica.com › topic › The-Holocaust-Facts-and-FiguresThe Holocaust: Facts and Figures | Nazi Germany & World War II

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   genocide. Jew. 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). Slavs, Roma, gay people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others also were singled out for obliteration, but the Nazis ...

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_HolocaustThe Holocaust - Wikipedia

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   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 ...