Holocaust
Holocaust noun - A destructive burning.
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Tragedy and holocaust are semantically related in disaster topic. In some cases you can use "Tragedy" instead a noun "Holocaust", when it comes to topics like catastrophe.
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Vladek can only note the tragedy of surviving the Holocaust only to be killed immediately afterward.
Source: Comic Book / Maus - The last line is "and the last number, the one that represents hope but also tragedy, is one that makes every man stand still...six million." I always thought it was just 6 million Israeli Jews but then I realized it was the six million that died in the Holocaust.
Source: Fridge / Music - Foreshadowing: Varies, depending on whether Larson is mocking the formerly inconceivable notion of something we now take for granted or alluding to tragedy yet to come (like the Titanic or the Holocaust).
Source: Creator / Erik Larson
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Tragedy and Holocaust. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/holocaust/tragedy
Holocaust & Tragedy. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/holocaust/tragedy>.
Tragedy or Holocaust. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/holocaust/tragedy.
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