It quite obviously doesn't.Sailor Haumea wrote:Erm, the USHMM uses a broad definition: http://www.ushmm.org/remember/office-of ... or-affairsSergey Romanov wrote:> I disagree with the assertion that the Holocaust is synonymous with the Shoah.
You can hold that as a personal opinion if you want. However specialists - like Yad Vashem and USHMM - define the Holocaust acc. to its original meaning as the word began to be used in the 1960s: it denotes the murder of Jews.
> Gypsies and the disabled were also targeted for genocide, as well as many Slavs across Eastern Europe.
This has zero to do with the meaning of the word Holocaust, which pertains to the Jewish genocide. The genocide of the Roma has its own term. Extermination of the disabled as the disabled doesn't fall under the UN definition of genocide.
> The Museum honors as a survivor any person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and/or political policies of the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos, this also includes refugees and people in hiding.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.ph ... d=10005143
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.ph ... d=10007867