Names of the Holocaust

Names of the Holocaust vary based on context. " The Holocaust " is the name commonly applied since the mid-1970s to the systematic extermination of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II . The term is also used more broadly to include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles , the Romani , Soviet civilians , Soviet prisoners of war , people with disabilities , gay men , and political and religious opponents , which would bring the total number of Holocaust victims to between 11 million and 17 million people. In Judaism, Shoah (שואה), meaning "calamity" in Hebrew , became the standard term for the 20th century Holocaust (see Yom HaShoah ). Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a death toll of 17 million. [2] Estimates of the death toll of non-Jewish victims vary by millions, partly because the boundary between death by persecution and death by starvation and other means in a context of total war is unclear. Overall, about 5.7 million (78 percent) of the 7.3 million Jews in occupied Europe perished ( Gilbert, Martin . Compared to five to 11 million (1.4 percent to 3.0 percent) of the 360 million non-Jews in German-dominated Europe.

Names of the Holocaust vary based on context. " The Holocaust " is the name commonly applied in English since the mid-1940s to the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II . The term is also used more broadly to include the Nazis ' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups they determined were "untermensch" or "subhuman," which included primarily the Jews and the Slavs , the former having allegedly infected the latter, including ethnic Poles , the Serbs , Russians , the Czechs and others. Other groups targeted for racial and other reasons were the Romani or "Gypsies," Baltic people (especially the Lithuanians ), people with disabilities , gay men , and political and religious opponents , which would bring the total number of Holocaust victims 17 million people. In Judaism , Shoah (שואה), meaning "calamity" in Hebrew , became the standard term for the 20th-century Holocaust (see Yom HaShoah ). Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a death toll of 17 million. [2] Estimates of the death toll of non-Jewish victims vary by millions, partly because the boundary between death by persecution and death by starvation and other means in a context of total war is unclear. Overall, about 5.7 million (78 percent) of the 7.3 million Jews in occupied Europe perished ( Gilbert, Martin . Compared to five to 11 million (1.4 percent to 3.0 percent) of the 360 million non-Jews in German-dominated Europe.

List of names for the genocide of Jewish people under Nazi rule Names of the Holocaust vary based on context. " The Holocaust " is the name commonly applied in English since the mid-1940s to the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II . The term is also used more broadly to include the Nazi Party 's systematic murder of millions of people in other groups they determined were " Untermenschen " or "subhuman," which included primarily the Jews and the Slavs , the former having allegedly infected the latter, including ethnic Ukrainians , Poles , the Serbs , Russians , the Czechs and others. Other groups targeted for racial and other reasons were the Romani people , Balts (especially Lithuanians ), people with disabilities , gay men , and political and religious opponents , which would bring the total number of Holocaust victims to 17 million people. In Judaism , Shoah (שואה), meaning "calamity" in Hebrew , became the standard term for the 20th-century Holocaust (see Yom HaShoah ). Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a death toll of 17 million. [2] Estimates of the death toll of non-Jewish victims vary by millions, partly because the boundary between death by persecution and death by starvation and other means in a context of total war is unclear. Overall, about 5.7 million (78 percent) of the 7.3 million Jews in occupied Europe perished ( Gilbert, Martin . Compared to five to 11 million (1.4 percent to 3.0 percent) of the 360 million non-Jews in German-dominated Europe.

List of names for the genocide of Jewish people under Nazi rule Names of the Holocaust vary based on context. " The Holocaust " is the name commonly applied in English since the mid-1940s to the systematic extermination of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II . The term is sometimes used in a broader sense to include the Nazi Party 's systematic murder of millions of people in other groups they determined were " Untermenschen " or "subhuman", which included, besides the Jews, Slavs , including Ukrainians , Poles , Russians , Serbs , Czechs , the former having allegedly infected the latter, and also, the Romani people , Balts (especially Lithuanians ), people with disabilities , gay men , and political and religious opponents . In Hebrew , Shoah ( שואה ), meaning "a catastrophe, a ruin" became the standard term for the Holocaust (see Yom HaShoah ).