Synonyms for holocaust
ˈhɒl əˌkɔst, ˈhoʊ lə-holo·caust

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1. Holocaustnoun

   Synonyms:
   Shoah

2. Holocaustnoun

   The mass murder of Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime during World War II.

   Synonyms:
   Shoah

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1. holocaustnoun

   an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)

   "a nuclear holocaust"

   Synonyms:
   final solution

2. Holocaust, final solutionnoun

   the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945

   Synonyms:
   final solution

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1. • Destruction
   • Genocide

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1. holocaustnoun

   Synonyms:
   burnt-offering (wholly consumed)

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1. List of paraphrases for "holocaust":

   shoah, massacre, incendiary

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1. List of known nicknames for "Holocaust":

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1. Marion Wiesel:

   My husband was a fighter, he fought for the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and he fought for Israel. He waged countless battles for innocent victims regardless of ethnicity or creed.

2. Shahar Azran/WJC:

   Preserving and conserving the remains of the Holocaust are critical to maintaining an accurate record of the atrocities committed, especially as the number of livingfirst-hand witnesses inevitably dwindles, only by knowing the past can we protect our future, and we are deeply grateful for Chancellor Merkel for her commitment to the preservation of the site where almost 1 million Jews were brutally murdered by the Nazis only and exclusively because they were Jews.

3. Olivia Marks-Woldman:

   Even 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, the need for justice remains powerful, oskar Groening was part of the Nazi killing machine which murdered 6 million Jewish people, and it is right that a court has judged him for his role. He chose to stand by and be complicit in the killing.

4. David Rosen:

   It is particularly important that experts from the leading Holocaust memorial institutes in Israel and the United States objectively evaluate as best as possible the historical record of that most terrible of times -- to acknowledge both the failures as well as the valiant efforts made during the period of the systematic murder of six million Jews.

5. Whoopi Goldberg:

   I said the Holocaust wasn't about race and was instead about man's inhumanity to man.