Sant'Anna:
A Story of the Holocaust
by Ilaria Cipriani
...Under the epidemic of ethnic cleansing, the whole of Europe was filled with fields of extermination, from Buchenwald to Dachau, from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, in which about six million Jews found a groundless and dreadful death, victims, in one word, of the Holocaust. This term, meaning “sacrifice consumed by the fire,” originates from the Greek word “olokauston,” which defines a religious sacrifice in which an animal was entirely burned. The word passed into Latin as “holocaustum,” which remembers the fire surrounding the dead bodies of Sant’Anna, who were burned on a pyre made of church pews.
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