Compare And Contrast Pogrom And The Holocaust

Pogroms and the Holocaust The words pogroms and Holocaust are very similar because they both mean that something is demolished or destroyed violently and both of them refer to Jewish people being treated very unfairly and even being murdered. According to one source, the word pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak or to demolish violently” and the same source also says that the word Holocaust means “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war”(“Pogroms”). This shows how the two words, holocaust and pogrom, are so closely related. The same source also says that the first incident that is considered a pogrom is believed to be anti-Jewish rioting in Odessa in 1821(“Pogroms”). So most of the pogroms that