Holocaust
Six million murdered
The Holocaust was the systematic murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II, along with millions of others including Roma, disabled people, and political prisoners.
The term has become the standard designation for this genocide: Holocaust survivors, Holocaust denial, Holocaust memorial. (Lowercase holocaust means large-scale destruction.)
Systematic annihilation of a people
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- concentration campsFacilities for mass detention
Jews · gas chambers · survivors · Treblinka · deportation · ghettos · Nuremberg · Eichmann
Act of completely ruining
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- cataclysmViolent, large-scale disaster
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
conflagration · massacre · slaughter · disaster · tragedy · calamity · carnage · apocalypse
genocide
Systematic annihilation of a people
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
concentration camps · Jews · gas chambers · survivors · Treblinka · deportation · ghettos · Nuremberg · Eichmann · antisemitism
destruction
Act of completely ruining
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- cataclysmViolent, large-scale disaster
inferno · conflagration · massacre · slaughter · disaster · tragedy · calamity · carnage · apocalypse · ruin
burnt offering
Sacrifice consumed by flames
biblical · Leviticus · fire · animal · religious · sacred · ancient · worship · atonement · priest
- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- 20th Century HistoryWorld War I, WWI, Great Depression, Russian Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution
- European HistoryFrench Revolution, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Industrial Revolution
- GermanyBerlin, Munich, Hamburg, Germany, German
- World War IIAllies, Nazi, Hitler, Axis, Third Reich
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, atomic bomb
Holocaustpreservation
Maintaining something's condition
salvation · renaissance · flourishing · thriving · survival
Holocaustliberation
Release from constraint
rescue · deliverance · salvation · sanctuary · refuge
- Holocaust survivorOne who lived through Nazi genocide
- nuclear holocaustMass extinction from atomic weapons
- The HolocaustNazi genocide of Jews
- Holocaust victimsThose murdered systematically by Nazis
- Holocaust denialRejecting Nazi genocide evidence
- Holocaust refugeesPeople fleeing Nazi genocide
hologram, holograph, holography, holographic, holistic, holism, whole, health, healthy