The word “Holocaust” was originally a religious ceremony in which an offering was entirely consumed by fire. It is derived form the Greek words holo, which means whole, and caustos, which means burned. In the way we use it today it means any widespread human disaster, but when most of us hear the word Holocaust we think of the destruction of Jews in Nazi Germany. During the 19th century Jews gained some equality with non-Jews …showed first 75 words of 1354 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1354 total…camp was photographed by Allied reconnaissance aircraft and it’s factories were bombed but not it’s gas chambers. In the end millions of Jews, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis, died in the Holocaust. The Jewish death toll is estimated at more than 5 million. We can only hope that we can prevent anything like this from ever happening again by using what we learned during the Holocaust.