Please note, that a special term for the Nazis’ genocide of the Jews - whether that be the Holocaust or Shoah - does not denigrate the suffering of other victims in any way, no more so than a special term for the murder of the Gypsies (Porajmos) denigrates other victims. In pointing out that Mr. Brazda wasn’t a Holocaust survivor I’m not diminishing the suffering he and others underwent.

Indeed, just a few days ago we discussed with 000G whether one genocide (or democide) is like another. For me the fact of the genocide overwhelms the differences between them - mass murder is mass murder, regardless of ethnicity or religion. However, this doesn’t mean that purely historically we cannot point out differences between various massacres. Holocaust was something other than Porajmos. Porajmos was something other than murder of Soviet POWs. And so on.