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Holocaust can mean:

• Holocaust (sacrifice), a burnt offering, from Greek holo-kauston "all burnt". The original sense, referring to a completely-burnt sacrifice
• The Holocaust, or Shoah, the systematic killing mainly of six million Jews, but also of Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals and other "undesirable" groups in Europe during World War II. Since 1978, this has been the main meaning of the English term.
  • Holocaust (TV miniseries), an influential portrayal of the Holocaust in 1978
• By extension the word was used in English to refer to other acts of obliteration by burning (or massacres in general). See:
  • category:fires
  • nuclear holocaust
  • category:massacres

See also Names of the Holocaust for a discussion of the history and usage of the word.

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See also

• Forgotten Holocaust -- several meanings
• Silent Holocaust -- several meanings

• Disambiguation pages