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Get to know Holocaust better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like destruction or devastation. In Dutch this translates to holocaust.

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Holocaust meaning

  1. An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
  2. A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
  3. Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.

Synonyms of Holocaust

destruction devastation final solution genocide race murder racial extermination

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Using Holocaust

  • The main meaning on this page is: An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes. | A complete or large offering or sacrifice. | Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
  • Useful related words include: destruction, devastation, final solution, genocide.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: holocaust, sjoa, jodenvervolging.
  • In the example corpus, holocaust often appears in combinations such as: the holocaust, holocaust survivors, holocaust memorial.

Context around Holocaust

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 30.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Holocaust

  • In this selection, "holocaust" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, florida, 199, upcoming, memorial, survivors and museum stand out and add context to how "holocaust" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 147 199 holocaust survivors living, a prominent holocaust historian said and holocaust survivors. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "holocaust" sits close to words such as evolving, lending and pg, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with holocaust

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Holocaust Remembrance Day Join the Florida Holocaust Museum for a very special virtual presentation from Holocaust survivor Halina Herman. (19 words)

There is the Holocaust, there are those who want to deny the Holocaust and those that want to forget the Holocaust. (21 words)

Bregman does an admirable job debunking those post-Holocaust experiments and theories, but the Holocaust itself still stands there, implacable and unmoving. (22 words)

The greatest authority of the last generation, the Chazon Ish, Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (1878 –1953), said he opposed a special day for a Holocaust memorial because we remember the Holocaust every day of our lives in our prayers and hearts. (40 words)

She has been sharing her experiences in schools and universities through the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Outreach Programme for several years so that young people can seek to understand the impact the Holocaust has had on the contemporary world. (39 words)

According to wartime reports and postwar demographic studies held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, up to 6 million Jews died during the holocaust, as well as roughly 250,000 people with disabilities, and thousands of homosexuals. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

Holocaust Remembrance Day Join the Florida Holocaust Museum for a very special virtual presentation from Holocaust survivor Halina Herman.

There are 147,199 Holocaust survivors living in Israel, according to figures published Sunday by the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority ahead of the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day.

There is the Holocaust, there are those who want to deny the Holocaust and those that want to forget the Holocaust.

But when I was a kid, and I first heard about the Holocaust, I asked my father if the Holocaust was the worst time of his life.

The greatest authority of the last generation, the Chazon Ish, Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (1878 –1953), said he opposed a special day for a Holocaust memorial because we remember the Holocaust every day of our lives in our prayers and hearts.

The program is hosted by the Holocaust museum, Sheerit Hapleitah of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Chicago, and CJE SeniorLife Holocaust Community Services.

Dame Margaret Hodge, who lost close relatives during the Holocaust, warned MPs “the language we use today matters” and criticised those who speak of asylum seekers “invading” Britain, during the annual Holocaust Memorial Day debate.

Ebert, who became a founding member of the UK's Holocaust Survivor Centre, and her, grandson accrued billions of views on in an effort to educate the younger generation on the Holocaust.

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She has been sharing her experiences in schools and universities through the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Outreach Programme for several years so that young people can seek to understand the impact the Holocaust has had on the contemporary world.

The stories of the Jewish Holocaust, the holocaust in Rwanda, the Partition of India, the trauma of apartheid, the Atlantic slave trade, and the massacres in Kenya and Cambodia are Canadian stories.

Already the first 50-state survey on the Holocaust knowledge of American Millennials and Gen Z that nearly one in five believe the Jews caused the Holocaust.

Bregman does an admirable job debunking those post-Holocaust experiments and theories, but the Holocaust itself still stands there, implacable and unmoving.

Israeli-Polish relations are still reeling over the Polish government’s controversial Holocaust speech law in 2018 that sought to criminalize blaming the Polish nation for the Holocaust.

The Fifth World Holocaust Forum, entitled “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting anti-Semitism,” will take place on Thursday, January 23, 2020 at the Warsaw Ghetto Square in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Deborah Lipstadt, a prominent Holocaust historian, said that Holocaust education remains an essential priority but that education alone will not prevent attacks of the kind that occurred in Halle.

Kenneth Bialkin, right, in 1999 during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, speaking with the American diplomat Lawrence S. Eagleburger, chairman of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims.

Visitors look at photos of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to the Hall of Names in the Holocaust History Museum at the Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, May 1, 2019.

According to wartime reports and postwar demographic studies held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, up to 6 million Jews died during the holocaust, as well as roughly 250,000 people with disabilities, and thousands of homosexuals.

Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz looks at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during his visit to the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem April 22, 2014.

Black, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, started his research when he went to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and saw an IBM machine on display with no context.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "holocaust" in a sentence?
An example: "Holocaust Remembrance Day Join the Florida Holocaust Museum for a very special virtual presentation from Holocaust survivor Halina Herman." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "holocaust" from authentic English texts.
What does "holocaust" mean?
Holocaust means: An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
What are synonyms of "holocaust"?
Common synonyms of "holocaust" include: destruction, devastation, final solution, genocide, race murder, racial extermination.
What is "holocaust" in Dutch?
"holocaust" translates to Dutch as: holocaust, sjoa, jodenvervolging.
How many example sentences with "holocaust" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "holocaust", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.