单词 | the holocaust |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Holocaust d. the Holocaust: the mass murder of the Jews by the Nazis in the war of 1939–1945. Also used in extended sense, of the similar fate of other groups; and attributive.The specific application was introduced by historians during the 1950s, probably as an equivalent to Hebrew ḥurban and shoah ‘catastrophe’ (used in the same sense); but it had been foreshadowed by contemporary references to the Nazi atrocities as a ‘holocaust’ (sense 2c): see quots. 1942 –9. ΚΠ 1942 News Chron. 5 Dec. 2/2 Holocaust...Nothing else in Hitler's record is comparable to his treatment of the Jews...The word has gone forth that..the Jewish peoples are to be exterminated...The conscience of humanity stands aghast. 1943 Hansard Lords 23 Mar. 826 The Nazis go on killing..If this rule could be relaxed, some hundreds, and possibly a few thousands, might be enabled to escape from this holocaust. 1945 M. R. Cohen in S. Goldschmidt Legal Claims against Germany p.vi Millions of surviving victims of the Nazi holocaust, Jews and non-Jews, will stand before us in the years to come. 1949 Proc. Amer. Acad. for Jewish Research 18 193 Problems of Jewish Hurban research.] 1957 Yad Washem Bull. Apr. 35/2 (heading) Research on the Holocaust Period. 1958 Yad Washem Bull. July 2/2 The catastrophe which overtook us...The Inquisition..is not the same as the Holocaust. 1962 B. Glanville Diamond xviii. 296 The holocaust..was the inevitable end, the logical conclusion of the pogroms, the Mosley marches, the hatred. 1965 A. Donat (title) The holocaust kingdom. 1967 N. Cohn Warrant for Genocide ix. 208 By the autumn of 1944 the holocaust was nearing its conclusion. 1968 Manch. Guardian Weekly 25 Apr. 10/4 There is now within modern history a compartment of ‘holocaust studies’—dealing with the wholesale destruction by the Nazis of European Jewry. 1972 F. Forsyth Odessa File 306 The mausoleum of Yad Vashem,..the shrine to six million of his fellow Jews who died in the holocaust. 1980 Jewish Chron. 18 Apr. 9/3 A memorial service..to mark Holocaust Day. < as lemmas |
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