Re: FW: Origin of term "Holocaust"
Arthur D. Jacobs (adjacobs@NETZONE.COM)
Fri, 30 May 1997 14:08:43 -0700
This is only a test for Tom Holloway...
ADJ
At 04:58 PM 5/30/97 -0400, you wrote:
>it appears that by mistake i sent this to the WW@-memories list
>instead of the WW2-history list. my apologies all around.
>
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>From: Salvatore_B
>Sent: Friday, May 30, 1997 12:02 PM
>To: 'mems'
>Subject: FW: Origin of term "Holocaust"
>
>actually, if i remember correctly, the usual Hebrew word for the
>Nazis' attempted extermination of the Jews is (transliterated)
>"Shoah", but i don't know what it means.
>
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>From: Adrian Smith[SMTP:LIB6AS@LIBRARY.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK]
>Sent: Friday, May 30, 1997 8:49 AM
>To: MEMORIES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>Subject: Re: Origin of term "Holocaust"
>
>There are two Hebrew words (e.g. Hurban?) for catastrophe used in
>this context. Surprisingly (for me) the Oxford English Dictionary
>(2nd ed) gives examples of the specific use of "holocaust" from 1942
>(News Chronicle newspaper) and Hansard (UK Parliament, House of
>Lords) in 1943 etc. It covers the period from 1933-1945 i.e. from
>Hitler's first enactments of anti-Jewish laws it seems. Adrian Smith
>
>
>'Date sent: Thu, 29 May 1997 20:04:36 +0100
>'Send reply to: "Project Memories of the 1940's,
>' for Children in Project Chatback"
><MEMORIES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
>'From: Tom Holloway <xuegx@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK>
>'Subject: Re: Origin of term "Holocaust"
>'To: MEMORIES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>
>'> "Holocoust" and what it means. I assumed it was a Jewish term but
>was at a loss
>'> of what it means and how the term came to be used in reference to
>the Jewish
>'> loss of lives.
>'
>'
>'The Oxford Etymological Dictionary gives....
>'
>''Whole burnt offering; complete sacrifice; complete
>'destruction.' From the Greek 'holo' (whole) 'kaustos'
>'(burnt) and late latin 'holocaustum'. The word
>''caustic' has the same derivation.
>'
>'
>'
>'Hendrickson (Word and Phrase Origins) says that it has
>'been used for 3 Centuries to denote massacre by fire.
>'
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