- Holocaust period
- time during which the German Nazis conducted an organized extermination of the Jewish people
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
Holocaust period
Look at other dictionaries:
Holocaust — Hol o*caust, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. ?, neut. of ?, ?, burnt whole; o los whole + kaysto s burnt, fr. kai ein to burn (cf. {Caustic}): cf. F. holocauste.] 1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Lithuania — The Holocaust in Nazi occupied Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian JewsRef label|a|a|none living in the Nazi controlled Lithuanian territories, known as the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland from 17… … Wikipedia
Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland — Before the Second World War, Second Polish Republic was home to 3,500,000 Polish Jews. After the 1939 German invasion of Poland, Nazi occupied Poland witnessed the Holocaust, with over 90% of Polish Jewry perishing over the next few years.The… … Wikipedia
Holocaust trains — The Holocaust trains were railway transports run by German Nazis and their collaborators to forcibly deport interned Jews and other victims of the Holocaust to the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps.Modern historians suggested that… … Wikipedia
Holocaust denial — Antisemitism Part of Jewish history … Wikipedia
Holocaust — Konzentrationslager Birkenau, Blick von der Zugrampe innen auf die Haupteinfahrt; Aufnahme 1945, kurz nach der Befreiung des Vernichtungslagers durch die Rote Armee, 1945 Als Holocaust [ˈhoːlokaʊ̯st, holoˈkaʊ̯st] (vom … Deutsch Wikipedia
Holocaust Memorial Center — The Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Farmington Hills, Michigan (near Detroit) was the first institution of its kind in the United States Fact|date=October 2007. About the old Holocaust Memorial Center Ground was broken for the Holocaust… … Wikipedia
Holocaust in Norway — In the middle of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, there were 2,173 Jews in Norway. At least 775 of these were arrested, detained, and/or deported. 742 were murdered in the camps, 23 died as a result of extrajudicial execution, murder,… … Wikipedia
Holocaust-Representation — During World War II, Poland lost more than six million of its inhabitants, about 22 percent of the entire population. That number includes about three million Polish Jews who perished during the war. The Holocaust was portrayed in several… … Guide to cinema
Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia — The best known Holocaust trial in Estonian SSR was brought in 1961, by the local Soviet authorities against Estonian collaborators who had participated in the execution of the Holocaust during the Nazi German occupation (1941 1944). The accused… … Wikipedia
