what is holocaust meaning?
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The word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering" to a god. Since the late 19th century, "holocaust" has primarily been used to refer to disasters or catastrophes. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used to describe Hitler's treatment of the Jews from as early as 1942, though it did not become a standard reference until the 1950s. By the late 1970s, however, the conventional meaning of the word became the Nazi genocide. The term is also used by many in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jews in particular. Some historians credit Elie Wiesel with giving the term 'Holocaust' its present meaning.\n\nwant to know more.. check it out..
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Genocide is killing a group.\n\nThe Shoah (Holocaust) was a specific genocide carried out under Law by the NAZI regime.\n\nThe Turks have never acknowleded their genocide against the Armenians.  The Germans and Austrians have apologized for their mega-murders of innocent men, women, and 1,500,000 children.\n\nBTW Japan has never apologized for their genocide against the Chinese.
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The holocaust itself started with the "Rassengesetze" /race law) in 1935. 3 years later at the "Reichskristallnacht" they started to put unwanted people into "Arbeitslager" (Concentration camps).\none of the first Concentration camps to be liberated was the one in S'Hertogenbosch (den Bosch9 in the Netherlands in September 1944. From that time to the end of WW II more and more of these camps were liberated in due course.\nThere were 23 Main Camps all over Europe with appr. four times as much dependent camps associated to these.\nThe last ones were Bergen Belsen in todays lower saxony in March 1945 and Dachau in Bavaria.\n\nThe best known camps are Auschwitz (today Poland), Dachau and bergen Belsen, as in these places great part of the murders of Jews took place (in these three camps more then a third  of the murders were done).\n\nSo you can't say when the liberation finally took place, but it ended with the Capitulation of the Nazi regime.
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That's a tough one to answer here due to space limitations. I think one of the main reasons it is relevant today is Eliezer's (really, Elie's) struggle to maintain his faith and belief in a loving God after experiencing the Holocaust.  That feeling .. the insecurity of faith .. is present in every generation and every culture. It's basically the question, "How can a loving and all-powerful God allow ...." \n\nAllow 9/11\nAllow suffering\nAllow terrorism\nAllow hunger\nAllow cruelty to children\nAllow good people to suffer and die\netc.\n\nTry these sites for some additional help with your question, and good luck.\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/night/\nhttp://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/night/nighttg.html\nhttp://www.bookrags.com/notes/nit/
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Holocoast \n\n\nThe Holocaust Misconception The Holocaust Misconception is likely one of the most misunderstood historical events of modern times. There are those that underestimate the extent of world knowledge about the German atrocities. There are also those who are ignorant of the way in which the Jews reacted to their situation. There is an incredible extent of incorrect information about the Holocaust which people have been taught or made to believe. It is imperative that modern society fully appreciate the terrors of the Holocaust in order to prevent its reoccurrence. First and foremost, we must address the misconception concerning the world’s knowledge of what was happening. It is often assumed and taught that the Holocaust portion of World War II was such a well kept secret that no one knew of it until after the fact, however, this is untrue. There were various ways that the world was notified of these horrors. Various nations and various Jewish communities gained knowledge of the barbarity and did nothing. The people in power at that time were notified many times of what was going on. On September 29 and 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev.
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If god is everything mentioned in the question, then one can argue that all of the holocausts of peoples in the past, present, and future did not happen. As god is omnipotent, then it is capable of changing the very nature of life on Earth, maybe reverting everything back to Eden for one. If he is omnibenevolent, then again, the holocausts should not have occurred, as god would not have allowed for such an atrocity. Most of all, he must show forgiveness to the 'original sin' of Adam and Eve, by reverting Earth back into an Eden of a paradise. If it is omniscient, then he should be seeing everything that is happening here, and should have done something about it, as it is supposedly omnipotent and omnibenevolent \nIn regards to the existence of evil, well, according to the Bible, god gave it form and substance through the creation of Lucifer, the angel's exile from heaven, and allowing the realm of hell to be concieved without molestation. This means that according to logic, god created evil, therefore he is evil. By the way, the simple fact that god is supposedly omnipotent means that in less than time itself, hell would be instantly annihilated. \nGod is supposedly possesses all the attributed mentioned, yet the world remains as it was then and now. Wars, massacres, pestilence and death have occured, and currently happening at the moment. While at the same time, goodness is also prevalent amongst the peoples, counteracting the damage done of 'badness.' This means that as far as reality is concerned, god is not omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient, because everything occuring in this world are done by the hands of man, not of god. So in a certain perspective, the responsibilities of the world should be man and man alone, not to any monipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient entity that does not exists.
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Anyone involved in WWII, Poland, the UK, Germany, Austria, Hungary. It wasn't just the Jewish people sent to the Death Camps, the Nazis hated everyone. \n\nTry this link but not if you get upset easily.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg's film about the Holocaust.\n\nIt was a very sobering movie. When the movie was over, everyone filed out of the theater with the same reverence you'd expect at a funeral service.
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check out\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust\nit might help...
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my grandfather survived the holocaust and i very sure that he isnt lying about it, i can see the number in his arm. \n\nTHE HOLOCAUST   \n\n   \n\nThe Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.\n\nIn 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that the Third Reich would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, close to two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution", the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people were murdered in the Euthanasia Program. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.\n  \n\n   \n \nThe Holocaust\nSee maps\n\nBefore beginning the war in 1939, the Nazis established concentration camps to imprison Jews, Roma, other victims of ethnic and racial hatred, and political opponents of Nazism. During the war years, the Nazis and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) carried out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist party officials. More than a million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by these units. Between 1942 and 1944, Nazi Germany deported millions more Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they murdered them in specially developed killing facilities.\n\nIn the final months of the war, SS guards forced camp inmates on death marches in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives on Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, many of whom had survived the death marches. World War II ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of German armed forces in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945.
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I am taking a holocaust class in collage. The way I understand it is that Hilterand the germans blamed the Jews for everything. Losing the war, denying Jesus Christ, and they had the best shops and house that money could buy. He had that took from them. To help u out a little more go to www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. If u have more questions e-mail at Njacobs7477@yahoo.com, I will be glad to help u.
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many people were killed in WWII including the Jews.\nbut the story of holocaust was made up by the Jews to pretend they were not safe in Europe and they needed their own homeland.that was the main pretext for invading and occupying palestine,a country that had no role in the war.but let it be said that there are some Jews who oppose occupation of Palestine.
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"when he denies holocaust he must go to jail"\nCan you cite ANY examples of this? My heavens, you are much more likely to find yourself in hot water for criticizing the homosexual agenda in this country. The problem with Holocaust denial is twofold: one, factually speaking it's right up there with those who say the moon landing never occurred, and two, those who believe that in every case I have ever seen are racists of the most virulent sort. In the US, but biggest concentration of holocaust deniers can be found in universities. In Europe, it's the hoi poloi. Also, it can be found anywhere you find concentrations of Muslims. The head of Fatah wrote his dissertation on holocaust denial (he is a denier himself), the president of Iran has public questioned the Holocaust and called for the destruction of Israel. It is the talk amongst the conspiracy minded (that is almost all) in the middle east.
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First, if you are going to try to raise a fundamental question about the authenticity of anything, try to do it in good English.  I hate having to wade through bad grammar and poor sentence structure in order to delve someone's meaning.  And second, if you are referring to that tired old argument about the holocaust being fake, then you are barking up the wrong tree.  The Holocaust happened and there is nothing you or your deluded friends can do about it.  I suspect that you know this and are just using it to stir up sentiments about something about which obviously you know nothing.
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators\n\nThe Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". \n\nThe commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to eleven million. Many non-Jewish people were killed as well.
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Which holocaust, there have been hundreds over the last 2000+ years.
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The context has two elements (at least)\n\na) The temporal and spatial time of its writing.\nb) The large body of words/verses which define and are defined by it.\nIn this case, the jews have suffered a humiliating, devasting loss. Part of their grief is expressed in highly charged, emotional curses. You see much of this in Mid-East funerals today where guns are fired and eternal vengeance is vowed. This not a prescriptive passage, but a descriptive one of sorrow/rage. \nYou are right to ask about contest.