Susan, between the capture, the trip to market ports, and the trip across the Atlantic, estimates put deaths as high as 60-million.

The Hebrew word for genocide in Nazi Germany is Shoah (meaning complete and utter destruction as found at least a dozen times in the bible).

Hoever, the word Holocaust comes from the Greek holos and kostos, which together mean "totally burnt" (as in nuclear holocaust and ecological holocaust). In 1978, a miniseries titled “Holocaust” aired on American television and the term entered common usage in the English language to describe genocide.

Mr. Kass used the Greek word.