Holocaust.

[dimpy.handa]

The word holocaust conjures images of a starving and emaciated humanity stumbling around in prison garb. These pictures have been seen frequently in the media and are well documented.

But there are other images that this word produces in the mind of man that rely simply on one's imagination and lack authentication.

These pictures are a result of certain opinions that have gained credence in the public arena but lack any substantial historical evidence .

In fact these opinions are so well entrenched in the culture that they continue unchallenged and are readily accepted by the average american.

In the minds of most people the word holocaust also takes the form of mass killing of Jews in gas chambers .

 

[shivibhanot]

The Holocaust was the extermination of European Jews in World War II by Nazi Germany, under the plan named 'The Final Solution of the Jewish Question' by Adolf Hitler. An estimated 5-6 million Jews were killed, mostly in concentration camps. Antisemites such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have claimed that the Holocaust is myth, claiming that the authenticity of the event is at best a wild exaggeration of the truth.

 

[pranavdash]

The 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"