REF: Naming of the Holocaust

[edward nizalowski <enizalowski@NVCS.STIER.ORG>]

Hello,
        I'm doing a booktalk on materials relating to the Holocaust.  It is =
tied in with a class that is studying The Diary of Anne Frank.  I was =
curious as to how the Holocaust camed to have this name.  The dictionary =
definition is to consume entirely or to destroy by fire.  In regard to =
Nazi Germany's presecution and destruction of Jews and other =
undesireables in the period of 1939 to 1945, who first used the term?  =
How did it come about that this term would be used to refer to this =
historical tragedy?

Ed Nizalowski, SMS
Newark Valley High School
Newark Valley, NY
enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org

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