Question

What does the word holocaust refer to economic answer?

Answer 1

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah,[b] was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaboratorssystematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.[a][c]The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labour in concentration camps; and in gas chambersand gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland.[4]