Question

What is holocaust ? ( 3 marks )

Answer 1

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire."

Answer 2

when the German were preoccupied with their own plight as a defeated nation emerging out of the rubble, the Jews wanted the world to remember the Atrocities and sufferings they had endured during the Nazi killing operations- also called the HOLOCAUST.