HOLOCAUST
- a complete or wholesale destruction, esp by fire [n -S]
- Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war
- The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941รป45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz
- A Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar