sentences:  The term "holocaust", first used in 1895 by the "New York Times" to describe the massacre of Armenian Christians by Ottoman Muslims, comes from the ; "hólos", "whole" + "kaustós", "burnt offering".The biblical term "shoah" (), meaning "destruction", became the standard Hebrew term for the murder of the European Jews.According to "Haaretz", the writer Yehuda Erez may have been the first to describe events in Germany as the "shoah".