Sentence examples for devastating holocaust from inspiring English sources

There are stray images, easily overlooked in light of the film's more exquisite moments, that clearly recall certain shots in Alain Resnais's devastating Holocaust documentary of 1955, Night and Fog, on which Marker was assistant director.

Defending South Boston, Mr. Bulger seemed unable to recognize that the urban holocaust devastating his community was generated partly by his brother.

The story that gripped us is set in a future devastated by nuclear holocaust.

For millions of Jewish families, devastated by the Holocaust, a Jewish state seemed the ultimate refuge from centuries of persecution.

Inspired by her family's history, Orringer's evocative first novel captures how Hungary's Jews were devastated by the Holocaust.

Hasidic parents take literally the Lord's order to "be fruitful and multiply" — they intend to replenish a culture devastated by the Holocaust — and Hasidim are now the fastest-growing segment of the Jewish population in New York City.

Feith's disdain for diplomacy and his credo that weakness invites aggression were shaped, Ricks reported, by personal history: "Like Wolfowitz, Feith came from a family devastated by the Holocaust.

"To state that the young man is a neo-Nazi when this is a man who comes from a family devastated by the Holocaust, based upon a mere doodle, is more than unfair, it is unforgivable," the lawyers said in their statement.

I suspected that he had been devastated by the Holocaust, among other tragedies.

The Sword of Shannara is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, where chemical and nuclear holocaust devastated the land in the distant past.

Casualties were estimated to be between 2 and 3 million (about a quarter to one-third of the total population), while the Jewish population of Belarus was devastated during the Holocaust and never recovered.