Silent Holocaust (other)
The Silent Holocaust may refer to: * Silent Holocaust (Judaism) * * Guatemalan genocide The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, or the Silent Holocaust ( es, Genocidio guatemalteco, , or ), was the massacre of Maya civilians during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by the Guatemalan military government ...

Silent Holocaust (Judaism)
Silent Holocaust ( he, שואה שקטה, sometimes called "another holocaust" or a "second holocaust") has been used with various meanings, and is used by certain Jewish communal and religious leaders to describe Jewish assimilation (cultural assimilation, religious assimilation) and interfaith marriages between Jews and gentiles. The term contrasts the resulting demographic effects (decrease in the Jewish population) with the Holocaust of Europe's Jews during World War II resulting in the genocide of six million Jews. Communal leaders, such as Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald of the National Jewish Outreach Program, popularized the phrase. The word silent is meant to evoke a state of shock due to the fact that millions of Jews are freely choosing to leave Judaism. For some, the loss of millions of Jewish coreligionists is deemed serious enough to be called a holocaust (meaning a "wholesale sacrifice or destruction". Assimilation Concerned Jewish people sometimes refer to the assimilat ...
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