Holocaust Thesis Statement: Holocaust was about mass murder of the minority groups and the Jews done secretly Introduction Holocaust also identifies with Shoah, Holocaust is a combination of the words ‘whole’ and ‘burnt’ in Greek, while Shoah identifies with ‘Catastrophe’ or ‘destruction’ in Hebrew. Holocaust signaled the genocide or mass murder in the World War II that killed Jews numbering to more than six million people. It is believed that Nazi Germany was a state sponsored systematic program to carry out the murder. The program was led and organized by Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler in territories occupied by the Germans.