Holocaust: History lessons, Belevich A.

The concept of "Holocaust" is familiar to the whole world. The word is a Greek origin and means "all -burning." So called a religious sacrifice in which the victim was betrayed by fire. However, already in the XII century, this term was assigned to such a terrible phenomenon as Jewish pogroms. Now he is most often associated with the destruction of Jews in the period before the Second World War and during it. However, in a broad sense, the Holocaust is understood as an act of genocide of any ethnic, social or religious group. Moreover, this genocide was planned, an ideological base was brought under it, specially developed technical means were used for it. Multimillion losses - and many personal fate that cannot be described by the language of statistics. Scientists, writers, musicians, people of different professions, ages were destroyed throughout Europe. And the Holocaust tragedy made the whole world startle. About this and much more - in our book.