holocaust

English Thesaurus

1. an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire) (noun.act)

hypernym	:	destruction, devastation,
definition	:	the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists (noun.act)

2. the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 (noun.act)

instance hypernym	:	genocide, race murder, racial extermination,
definition	:	systematic killing of a racial or cultural group (noun.act)