The Ballad of Mauthausen: remembering the horrors of the Holocaust

As the noted theologian and writer Patrick Comerford reminds us, the word Holocaust is derived from the Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holokaustos), which incorporates the words ὅλος (‘whole’) and καυστός (‘burnt’).  It has come to be synonymous with the Nazi genocidal calamity before and during World War II. It was therefore only fitting that the Australian… Source

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