“The holocaust is a Greek word (holo “whole”; caustos “burned”) which is a religious rite in which an offering was entirely consumed by fire.”(Encarta) In modern world the word holocaust refers to any widespread of human disaster, especially means slaughter of Jewish population in Germany and in German-controlled states. When somebody hears “holocaust” the first thing that comes to their mind is the killing of Jews in Poland and that Poles did not do …showed first 75 words of 1111 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1111 total…families. This has put a psychological strain on Jewish and Polish survivors, because some of they did not have a family or friends with them for support and love. They lost everything in the war and now they had to start all over again, but sometimes without any relatives and friends. The World War II and the Holocaust showed an aspect of human cruelty that was exposed more brutal than the civilized world could admit.