COD: destruction or slaughter on a large scale. “ Winston Churchill — remembered by all those who lost their relations and friends in the holocaust of the Dardanelles , so assiduously organised by this imitation strategist … . This was partly because of their sensitive relationship with Israel arising from the Jewish Holocaust in Europe . The Yad Vashem memorial on the hills west of Jerusalem is supposed to commemorate the Holocaust . It was the two shots fired from this hand on that summer morning in the Balkans that ignited the smouldering embers of war in Europe and led to the fire that caused the conflagration that created the holocaust . In Hungary , for example , the Germans are to blame for the Hungarian Holocaust , the ` Russians " for Soviet communism and now , in some circles , the Jews for the failures of capitalism . 1945 : Pathetic victims of the Nazi Holocaust caged by barbed wire There was no inexorable train of logic which led from that day to the Holocaust . Coincidentally , another curriculum has appeared which stress prevention rather than survival of a nuclear holocaust , ` choices " is a set of 10 lessons on conflict and nuclear war . This is not just because of the threat from disease , famine or a self-inflicted nuclear holocaust ; all social worlds are precarious in a deeper sense .