Sentence examples for Holocaust from inspiring English sources

The word "Holocaust" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to the mass murder of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazi regime in Germany during World War II. For example, you could say: "The Holocaust was one of the darkest periods in human history."

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Holocaust

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The systematic mass murder (genocide) of 6 million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

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The Imperial War Museum's Holocaust education officer, Rachel Donnelly, thinks the certification is appropriate.

It may be fair to point out that Britain and the Allies were fighting to liberate Europe from the Nazis who perpetrated the holocaust.

All the facts were supplied by Szmul Zygielbojm, a member of the Polish government in exile who made it his mission to inform the world about the holocaust.

Eva stands beneath a projection showing the gulag of concentration and death camps, for the latest in her tireless rounds of presentations on the Holocaust and her own family history.

Like that of the Holocaust itself, the story of Terezín's music revealed itself only slowly over time – and was not widely known until Czech violinist Joza Karas published a book in 1985, Music in Terezín.

Germany's dealing with its two difficult pasts – the East German state socialist dictatorship and, much more importantly, Nazism and the Holocaust – has almost universally been considered a success, even a model for others to emulate.

Inglourious Basterds ultimately proved less than controversial because Tarantino was intelligent enough to eschew shots of Holocaust victims in favour of scenes featuring tough Jewish blokes making mincemeat of a cavalcade of cartoonish Nazi scumbags.

Haggith is also prepared for the inevitable snipes and counter-claims that are a contemporary feature of any discussion of the Holocaust.

Teachers have six lessons, on average, to teach the Holocaust, and if we want children to think of the victims as real people, with real lives – and more than piles of dead bodies, which is how the Nazis would have wanted it – this film is not where young people should be engaging with it for the first time.

As a comment on shock value, Cannibal Holocaust succeeded all too well.

Ministers were also advised to avoid attendance at any commemoration of the Armenian genocide, and to avoid any mention of it at Holocaust Day memorials.

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