Norman Finkelstein

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

American Educator

Michael McCaul

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

American Politician

Tara Westover

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.

American Historian

Joel Grey

There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.

American Actor

Park Yeon-mi

There is a holocaust going on in my country, the world needs to acknowledge that and do something to help the people of North Korea.

North Korean Activist

Adam Green

Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

American Director

Norma McCorvey

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.

American Celebrity

Grimes

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

Canadian Musician

Masha Gessen

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

Russian Journalist

Taylor Hanson

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

American Musician

The word holocaust implies extreme devastation and is often associated with suffering and death.

Disastrous Connotations

Use 'holocaust' in serious or somber situations, as it carries weight and emotional impact.

Serious Tone

Using 'holocaust' for minor events can be seen as insensitive because of its historical significance.

Avoid Overuse

The word specifically denotes the tragic genocide of Jews during World War II.

Historic Specificity

Because of its link to a tragic history, use the term with respect and awareness.

Cultural Sensitivity

When referring to the genocide during World War II, 'Holocaust' is often capitalized.

Capitalization Matters

Its archaic use is rooted in religious sacrifice, indicating complete consumption by fire.

Religious Roots

The religious meaning is outdated; use in historical or literary discussions of ancient practices.

Archaic Usage

 and the fate of all of humanity been so intertwined. There was the bomb, and there's now. And where we go from here is going to determine not only the quality and the length of our individual lives, but whether, if we could see the Earth a century from now, we'd recognize it. It's a holocaust of a different kind,

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 Everybody's got to answer their grandchildren some day what you did about the holocaust in Africa, and you better have an answer. We don't have anything to translate that will into action. What we do have is the U.S.-enabled Leviathan Force that says, "You want me to take that guy down? I'll take that guy down.

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 maybe a trillion dollars, to modernize them so they last throughout the 21st century, so that by the time Jasmine is my age, she's talking to her children and maybe even her grandchildren about the threat of nuclear holocaust? And if you're paying any attention at all to cyberthreats,

The world doesn't need...

 you think about massacre survivors like we think about world war ii veterans like holocaust survivors people who are very reluctant to talk about what they had experienced and and many survivors in the african-american community didn't want to burden their children and grandchildren

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 This darkness is echoed throughout the collection, which includes controversial references to the holocaust and the Kamikazes. Even the relics of seemingly happier times are described as crucifying the “My husband and child smiling out of the family photo;

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 this chapter one there was a high level of public awareness of out the potential of nuclear catastrophe and an indelible image was implanted in our collective minds that in fact nuclear holocaust would be absolutely globally destructive and could in some

Surviving a nuclear...

 white who had just covered world war ii and the holocaust likened the streets of india to the gates of the buchenwald concentration camp that tragedy of partition and its rumbling aftershocks echo through the collective memory of india pakistan and

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 change or see nuclear holocaust or D all of the above oh I missed one or e none of the above that's the one we're not normally offered what if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing

A 40-year plan for...

 largely female staff the fact that I nearly died in the Holocaust means that I'm very motivated to make sure that each day is worth living that my life was worth saving

The hidden history of...

 America's public energy conversation boils down to this Would you rather die of A) oil wars, or B) climate change, or C) nuclear holocaust,

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