holocaust

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Survivors honoured for their services to holocaust awareness in a series of portraits commissioned by the King were welcomed to the Palace, including 100-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and 98-year-old Helen Aronson.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

In the 1950s, it was a nuclear holocaust and in the 1960s a population bomb and deforestation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

In 1983, the nuclear holocaust film “The Day After,” also on ABC, was watched by more than 100 million people.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

And it will only get worse, as Frank and other biologists have argued about a "biological holocaust," unless we take action to protect wildlife, including bats.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024

Rare is the human spirit that remains buoyant in a holocaust.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann