re: #13 Alouette

“Out of the Holocaust” WTF

Now I’m wondering exactly when the term “Holocaust” came to be used to specifically refer to the genocide of 1939-1945.

Became common after 1978:

The term entered common parlance after 1978, the year that the popular Holocaust (TV miniseries) was broadcast on the American NBC television network. The series proved that the subject matter could have popular appeal, as well as providing a convenient and enduring term.

Inititally:

Holocaust was adopted as a translation of Shoah—a Hebrew word connoting catastrophe, calamity, disaster, and destruction—which was used in 1940 in Jerusalem in a booklet called Sho’at Yehudei Polin, and translated as The Holocaust of the Jews of Poland.

en.wikipedia.org