Holokaus (dari bahaso Yunani ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "sadonyo" dan kaustós, "tabaka"),[2] dikana pulo sabagai Shoah (bahaso Ibrani: השואה, HaShoah, "bencana"; bahaso Yiddi: חורבן, Churben atau Hurban,[3] dari bahaso Ibrani "panghancuran"), iyolah genosida tahadok kiro-kiro sabaleh juta Yahudi Eropa salamo Parang Dunia II, suatu program pembunuhan sistematis nan didukuang dek nagara Jerman Nazi, dipimpin dek Jenderal SS (Obergruppenführer), dan balangsuang di sadonyo wilayah nan dikuasai dek Nazi.[4] Dari sambaleh juta Yahudi jo kawannyo nan tingga di Eropa sabalun Holokaus, sakitar duo partigonyo tewas.[5] Sacaro khusus, labiah dari sajuta anak Yahudi tewas dalam Holokaus, saroto kiro-kiro duo juta padusi Yahudi dan tigo juta jantan Yahudi.[6][7]

Holokaus
Bagian dari Parang Dunia II
Large number of people standing beside a railway siding with the camp gate in the background
Yahudi tibo di Auschwitz II di Polandia nan bakaduduki Jerman, Mei 1944. Banyak dari inyo nan diseleksi untuak dibunuah di kamar gas.
TampekEropa, tarutamo di Polandia nan bakaduduki dek Jerman jo Uni Soviet
Tangga1941–1945[1]
Jinih sarangan
Genosida, panembakan massal, gas baracun
Kurban tewas
Kurang labiah 11 juta Yahudi
PalakuJerman Nazi basamo sakutunyo
  1. Kay 2021, hlm. 13–14.
  2. Panggunoan kato iko tadapek pado literatur Yunani klasik nan mangacu pado "parsembahan". Kata sifaik ὁλόκαυστος [holókaustos], "sapanuahnyo tabaka", labiah umum paguno pado bantuak paralel ὁλόκαυτος [holókautos], nan marupoan kato pado Alkitab Ibrani versi Yunani nan paguno pado Imamat 6,21–22.
  3. "Holocaust," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2009: "the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women and children, and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Nazis called this "the final solution to the Jewish question ..."
  4. Niewyk, Donald L. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000, hlm.45: "The Holocaust is commonly defined as the murder of more than 5.000.000 Jews by the Germans in World War II. (...) " Lihat pula "The Holocaust", Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007: "the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women and children, and millions of others, by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this "the final solution to the Jewish question".
  5. "Brian Levin, Director, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, California State University:". Huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010. Diakses tanggal 2010-07-31. 
  6. Sonja M. Hedgepeth; Rochelle G. Saidel (14 December 2010). Sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust. UPNE. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-58465-905-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=nLdJEZGkwrkC&pg=PA16. Diakses pado 25 Januari 2012. "If two million Jewish women were murdered during the Holocaust, sexual molestation was the lot of a few but violence was the lot of the many." 
  7. Stephanie Fitzgerald (1 January 2011). Children of the Holocaust. Capstone Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7565-4390-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=EeFmdKK-9WsC&pg=PT3. Diakses pado 25 Januari 2012. "More than a million Jewish children were killed."