What is Holocaust trivialization?
[[File:Auschwitz I Barracks.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz concentration camps]], a testament that antisemitism caused the worst genocide in human history.]] [[File:Auschwitz Memorial to Last Prisoners Killed.jpg|thumb|200px|A Holocaust memorial outside Auschwitz concentration camp I.]] '''Holocaust trivialization''' is the use of the word '''Holocaust''' in a way that decreases the perceived size or importance of [[the Holocaust]]: the [[genocide]] of at least 6,000,000 Jews (67% of pre-war European Jews).<ref> * {{cite book |chapter=Faith, murder, resurrection: The Iron Guard and the Romanian Orthodox Church |title=Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust |last=Shapiro |first=P.A. |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/monograph/book/4016 |publisher=[[Indiana University]] Press |year=2007 |isbn=9780253116741 |oclc=191071016 |access-date=November 4, 2024}} * {{cite book |chapter=Towards the Holocaust |title=The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-changing-face-of-anti-semitism-9780195341218?cc=gb&lang=en& |last=Laqueur |first=Walter |date=July 30, 2009 |publisher=[[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] Press, USA |isbn=9780195341218 |access-date=November 3, 2024}} * {{cite web |title=Deportation of Hungarian Jews |url=https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1942-1945/deportation-of-hungarian-jews |work=Timeline of Events |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |accessdate=6 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125004028/https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1942-1945/deportation-of-hungarian-jews |archive-date=25 November 2017 |url-status=live}} * {{cite web |last1=Brosnan |first1=Matt |title=What Was The Holocaust? |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-holocaust |publisher=Imperial War Museum |date=12 June 2018 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20190302062958/https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-holocaust |archivedate=