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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, memorial to the victims of the Holocaust . Designed by architect James Ingo Freed, it opened in 1993. Using a stark, harsh architectural vocabulary of industrial forms and unadorned materials, the building itself ser... Read more
Holocaust
Holocaust , name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. Although anti-Semitism in Europe has a long history, persecution of German Jews began with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Jews were disenfranchised, then terrorized in anti-Jewish riots (such a... Read more
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann , 1906-62, German National Socialist official. A member of the Austrian Nazi party, he headed the Austrian office for Jewish emigration (1938). His zeal in deporting Jews brought him promotion (1939) to chief of the Gestapo's Jewish section. Eichmann promoted the use of gas chambers f... Read more
Diaspora
Diaspora [Gr.,=dispersion], term used today to denote the Jewish communities living outside the Holy Land. It was originally used to designate the dispersal of the Jews at the time of the destruction of the first Temple (586 BC) and the forced exile [Heb.,=Galut] to Babylonia (see Babylonian capti... Read more
eugenics
eugenics , study of human genetics and of methods to improve the inherited characteristics, physical and mental, of the human race. Efforts to improve the human race through bettering housing facilities and other environmental conditions are known as euthenics. Sir Francis Galton , who intro... Read more
Judaism
Judaism A monotheistic world religion with origins in the prophetic activities of the Jews in relation to the God Yahweh. It is important to distinguish early biblical Judaism, before the fall of the Temple in 70CE, and later Judaism which was focused on the synagogue. Judaism was organized around r... Read more
chemical warfare
chemical warfare employment in war of incendiaries, poison gases , and other chemical substances. Ancient armies attacking or defending fortified cities threw burning oil and fireballs. A primitive type of flamethrower was employed as early as the 5th cent. BC; modern types are still in use. In ... Read more
reparations
reparations payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to describe compensation sought by ... Read more
Paul Adolph Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker 1927-, American economist, government official, and banker, b. Cape May, N.J. After working as an under secretary in the Treasury Department (1969-74) and as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank (1975-79), he was appointed the chairman of the Board of Governors of the ... Read more
John Paul II
John Paul II 1920-2005, pope (1978-2005), a Pole (b. Wadowice) named Karol Józef Wojtyła; successor of John Paul I . He was the first non-Italian pope elected since the Dutch Adrian VI (1522-23) and the first Polish and Slavic pope. Ordained a priest in 1946, he earned doctorates in ... Read more

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Holocaust
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Holocaust , name given to the period...held accounts belonging to Holocaust victims but had denied the...1.25 billion fund to be used to compensate those who can...claims and, more generally, Holocaust survivors, the latter as...
Holocaust, The
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Holocaust, The “ The Holocaust ” is the most common name...Socialism between 1933 and 1945. Holocaust , from the Greek holokauston , means...Europe; since then genocide has been used to refer to numerous other historical...
Holocaust, U.S. War Effort and The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Holocaust, U.S. War Effort and The. The Holocaust, Nazi Germany's systematic...government, whose policy on the Holocaust had paralleled that of the State...for rejection. Instead, they used the best argument available...
Elie Wiesel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...born 1928), a survivor of the Holocaust, is a writer, orator, teacher and chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Elie Wiesel was...the most widely known and admired Holocaust writer. Only in Night does Wiesel...
Wiesel, Elie
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust, the massive killing of Jews...chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Childhood...most widely known and admired Holocaust writer. Only in Night does...a social activist, Wiesel used his writing to plead for Jews...
Aharon Appelfeld
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. He was a recipient of the...realistic depiction of the Holocaust in his writings, preferring...that parallel those of the Holocaust. Appelfeld, on the other...Ostjuden from Eastern Europe used as the explanation for their...
Simon Wiesenthal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...family to the death camps of the Holocaust, he spent the years following...their families perished in the Holocaust. In late 1942 Wiesenthal secured...and welfare organization for Holocaust survivors. When reflecting...architect of the blueprint used to destroy six million Jews...
Gestapo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...of European Jews during the Holocaust. Hitler named Herman G...the Nazi government. Canaris used the Abwehr intelligence network...one million Jews during the Holocaust. Gestapo and SS members also...institutional perpetrators of the Holocaust. The Gestapo was dissolved...
Polling
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...campaigns. Fourth, polling is used in policy analysis and program...the terms poll and survey are used interchangeably. During the...random sampling methods are used and sample size —...Poll sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington...
Aliyah
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...also aliya ) is the term used in both religious tradition...push" factors — holocaust 1931 – 1939 225...push" factors — holocaust 1940 – 1948 143...push" factors — holocaust 1948 – 1951 667...

Dictionary entries related to "Holocaust used as"

Holocaust, the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Holocaust, the the mass murder of Jews under...camps such as Auschwitz. The term Holocaust denial is now used for the mistaken belief or assertion...x2018;catastrophe’ (used in the same sense); but it had been...
Holocaust
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Holocaust. A sacrifice completely consumed by fire...sacrifice. Less accurately, the word is also used of a sacrifice with many victims. Since...be applied absolutely (‘the Holocaust’) to the Nazi persecution of...
Safdie, Moshe
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...College Campus (1972–8); the Children's Holocaust Memorial (1976–87) and Holocaust Transport Memorial (1994—featur-ing a railway-wagon used to carry Jews to their deaths), both at Vad Vashem, and...
God
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church God. The word is used both as a common noun, e.g. in polytheism...attempt to exterminate the Jews (the Holocaust ). Process theologians sought to reconstruct...Reflection on the silence of God during the Holocaust also lies behind the doctrine of God...
Righteous gentiles
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...the messiah comes. More specifically, the term is used of those gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust . There is an Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem .
Nemec, Jan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...forces into Prague, footage broadcast around the world (later used in both U.S. and Soviet propaganda films), 1968; made...first feature, Diamonds of the Night, based on a novel by Holocaust survivor Arnost Lustig, follows two Jewish boys who jump from...
Final solution
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Jews. The expression ‘final solution’ was first used in 1941. After the Wannsee Conference of 1942, Adolph Eichmann was...implement the total destruction of European Jewry in the occupied lands. See HOLOCAUST .
anti-Semitism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Semitic peoples, notably the Arabs, anti-Semitism is only used to refer to prejudice against Jewish people). In the late...final solution’ which Hitler worked for was to be a HOLOCAUST or extermination of the entire Jewish race; some six million...
Segal, George
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...figures are made from casts taken from the human body; he used his family and friends as models. In the 1970s he began to...the late 1970s he also made public monuments, notably The Holocaust (Lincoln Park, San Francisco, 1982), in which the figures...
Public Interest Law
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...there was a very substantial Jewish population, including Holocaust victims. Another early practitioner of public interest law...lawyer can take a portion as a fee, other methods must be used to fund public interest law firms. These include membership...

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Holocaust vs. 'Holocaust'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/28/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...the intensely emotional subject of Holocaust memorialization, any less-than...by putting quotation marks around "Holocaust," a marketed image, as distinct from the Holocaust, a historical reality. Readers are...passages with maddening juxtapositions of Holocausts and "Holocausts." In an era ...
Holocaust Denial Trial: Do We Care? With historical truth at stake, little interest found in landmark libel case in London.
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 2/18/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...unduly restricted." Is "The Holocaust on Trial?" asks a cover story...No, say authorities on the Holocaust. But the trial, which is...statement that the Nazis had used sealed gas trucks "on a very...project director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington...
Holocaust used as weapon.(OPINIONS)
Newspaper article from: Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario); 2/3/2009; 700+ words ; ...week to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The good...bad news is that even as the Holocaust is becoming a fixture in the...is also being increasingly used as a weapon against the Jews...documented the way this weapon was used during the recent war with...
Holocaust Denial Grows Among Arabs
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 5/4/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Jewish Exponent 05-04-2000 Holocaust Denial Grows Among Arabs The...ruling that David Irving is a Holocaust-denier is a victory for truth...as it is to fight individual Holocaust-deniers such as Irving...They appear in the textbooks used in P.A. schools, and in...
Holocaust denial and Jewish liberals
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 12/14/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...criticize the enlistment of the Holocaust for Israeli nationalist causes...liberals like myself and the Holocaust deniers in Teheran. They want...Diaspora Jewry for exploiting the Holocaust, it can become a weapon in...your own society, it can be used against your society by your...
Holocaust Denial.
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx; 3/30/2007; 700+ words ; ...April 15, 2007, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)? Does anyone care if there is another Holocaust similar to the 1930s and...people are questioning if the Holocaust was as monumental as the Jewish...is that there was a building used during the war as a brothel...
Respecting the Holocaust.(relating World War II Jewish genocide to current atrocities)
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Some Jews have used the Holocaust as a way of preserving a...Zionists have used the Holocaust, since the 1967 war, to...Jewish politicians have used the Holocaust to curry favor...the world--if we have used that phrase as a beginning...
Studying the Holocaust: Issues, Readings and Documents.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Cdn (paper). Studying the Holocaust is a presented as, "a guide...when studying or teaching the Holocaust" (p. i). Meant for educators...classroom setting. I have used the exercise in interpreting...subject of perpetrators, I have used a section of the book in which...
Jewish Holocaust author defends 'Disneyland-meets-Dachau' slur
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 7/16/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...language of Jewish suffering - holocaust denier - an insult until this...of a short book called The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the...the world. He accuses the 'Holocaust industry' - and principally...claims the same tactic was used to 'profiteer' from Switzerland...
Holocaust ads in campus paper renew revisionism debates
News Wire article from: University Wire; 4/3/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...something as horrific as the Holocaust. But some groups contest even...Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust recently brought its ideas...questioned the facts of the Holocaust through essays that doubted...a plan to kill all Jews or used homicidal 'gassing chambers...