What terms Jewish refer holocaust?

Answer 1

The genocide of Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and 6 million Jewish people. Jews refer to the Holocaust as "Shoah".

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There are, however, two competing definitions. When used by professional historians it refers to the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

"The standard work by the distinguished Canadian historian Michael Marrus, TheHolocaust in History, focused on, to use his own words, 'the Holocaust, the systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis'. Similarly, Sir Martin Gilbert, in his documentary compilation, The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy( London, 1986), concurred in referring to 'the systematic attempt to destroy all European Jewry - an attempt now known as the Holocaust'. Another author, Ronnie S. Landau, put forward a similar definition in his book, The Nazi Holocaust: 'The Holocaust involved the deliberate, systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe between 1941 and 1945."

Richard J. Evans, Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial, Verso, London and New York, 2002, pp. 113-4.

More popularly, especially in the US, it is extended to all people killed by the Nazis on the basis of their group membership.

Yet a third view is gaining ground - namely, the the Germans fought a 'war of annihilation' (mainly on the Eastern Front) and that this attempt to reduce the population of Eastern Europe by about 30 million was the core of the Holocaust, though it included some other groups.

Answer 2

An event involving loss of life on a collossal scale ("nuclear holocaust"), and particularly the mass-killing of the Jewish population during World War Two by Nazi Germany. Holocaust is a Greek word for "sacrifice by fire".

Answer 3

first answer:

It is english and refers to the Nazi extermination of the jews in camps during world war two

second answer:

The Nazi Germans called it the Endlösung - "final solution", short for "final solution to the question" (or "... problem"), a Nazi euphemism for what later became known as the Holocaust. Use of the phrase "final solution", even in non-Nazi contexts, e.g., "the final solution of a mathematics problem" is frowned upon in modern Germany. Note: It is important when reading books about the Third Reich that were published before 1978 to remember that the term "Holocaust", although it had been used before 1978 in some newspaper articles and by some Jewish and other intellectuals, did not become the general term used among the general population to refer to this genocide until after the appearance of the Holocaust TV miniseries in 1978. For example, William Shirer's 1961 book Rise and Fall of the Third Reichuses the term "the final solution" in quotes; the word "Holocaust" is not mentioned.