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• Holocaust, from Greek holo-kauston "all burnt", in its original sense refers to a completely-burnt sacrifice, see Holocaust (sacrifice)
• the wider sense of "massacre, destruction of a large number of persons" is attested from 1833. Some writers who use an archaic style, such as H.P. Lovecraft, have used the word in reference to other things--in Lovecraft's case, it was an extraterrestrial antichrist called Wilbur Whateley, and his unholy father was Yog-Sothoth
• The Holocaust, the systematic killing of mainly Jews, but also Gypsies, Poles, and other groups in Europe during World War II that killed 11,000,000 people in all, earlier known in Hebrew as Shoah. Since the 1970s, this has been the main meaning of the English term. See also Names of the Holocaust.
• Post-1970s coinings of "holocausts" in the sense of "genocide" or "mass murder" imply a comparison to the Shoah and are often used polemically
  • Asian Holocaust, in Asia and the Pacific islands under the Japanese Empire
  • Black Holocaust, the death of Africans on slave ships
  • Cambodian Holocaust, or Cambodian Genocide, the 1,800,000 Cambodians killed in the 1970s at the hands of Pol Pot's forces
  • Chinese Holocaust, in China during the Japanese occupation
  • Hiroshima Holocaust, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that killed 66,000 Japanese immediately
  • Ukrainian Holocaust, the Holodomor during Soviet collectivisation
  • Armenian Holocaust, or Armenian Genocide that killed 1,500,000 Armenians
  • Gay Holocaust, see history of gays in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
  • Native American Holocaust, or Native American massacres
  • Nuclear holocaust, the anticipated result of nuclear war and nuclear winter
  • Rwanda Holocaust, or Rwandan Genocide that killed 1,000,000 people.
  • Holocaust of the un-born (abortion), is a propaganda term used in combination with pro-life activism argument.
• Holocaust! is the name of a book about the Cocoanut Grove fire, which killed 492 people in Boston in November, 1942. The book was published in 1959, and the word "holocaust" is used in its earlier meaning.

in popular culture:

• Holocaust (band), a Scottish heavy metal band
• Holocaust (rapper), an American rapper affiliated with Wu-Tang Clan
• Holocaust (comics), a Marvel Comics super villain
• Holocaust, member of Blood Syndicate, by Milestone Comics
• Holocaust (miniseries), 1978 television miniseries
• In The Princess Bride a cloak that burns without harming the person wearing it is called a holocaust cloak.

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