HIST 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tampon, Raul Hilberg, Yom Hashoah
3 Oct 2016
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People were aware of what was going on but they may not have wanted to talk about it. Derived from the greek word meaning holy burnt offering burnt sacrifice . Dates back to the crusades which were religious wars. Jews were attacked and slaughter in the name of the christian king. Jews represented the sons and daughters of satan. The word holocaust made more sense in medieval times. Christianity was universal for the most part in europe. Wasn"t until 1960"s that the church declared jews were not responsible. 1950"s term holocaust began to be widely associated with the destruction of european. Yom ha-shoah: not widely observed until the 1960"s. For almost over a decade no one wanted to talk about what happened to the jews, even the jews. Jews who were born and raised in palestine: known as sabra-meaning cactus. Where jews could train in athletic and sports. Change jews into people who could farm the land but also fight.
