Question

Define holocaust.(1)​

Answer 1

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• a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.

• a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering
• a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offeringUsually the Holocaust . the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offeringUsually the Holocaust . the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life

Answer 2

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah,[c] was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.[a][d] The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through work in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland From the Auschwitz Album: Hungarian Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were "selected" to go to the gas chambers. Camp prisoners are visible in their striped uniforms.[