#holocaust

• Anti-Semitic — Demonstrating hostility, aversion, prejudice, or hatred toward Jews, their culture, religion, or community interests; a proponent of antisemitism. As an adjective, it characterizes racist discourses, discriminatory laws, extremist political movements (such as Nazism or Fascism), or propagandistic currents designed to instigate violence, persecution, and ethnic segregation. As a noun, it denotes a person who promotes or adopts an open xenophobic stance against the Jewish population.
• Antisemitism — An attitude, doctrine, or political and social movement characterized by hostility, prejudice, discrimination, or systematic hatred toward Jewish people, based on religious, racial, cultural, or economic grounds. This historical phenomenon has taken various forms of expression, ranging from medieval pogroms and institutionalized discrimination in state laws to the systematic persecution and mass extermination of the Jewish population during the Holocaust.
• Burnt offering — An ancient ritual sacrifice, specifically found in the old Jewish tradition (Old Testament) and other early religious cults, consisting of the complete and structural destruction by fire of a sacrificed animal on the altar, as an offering brought to the divinity; holocaust. The term expresses the believer's total renunciation in favor of the sacred, as the meat is not consumed by humans.
• Auschwitz — The German name for the Polish town of Oświęcim, universally used to designate the largest concentration and mass extermination camp complex established by the Nazi regime during World War II. As a universal symbol of the Holocaust, it represents the site where over one million people were systematically murdered.