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post-Holocaust
adjective
post-Hol·o·caust
| \ ˌpōst-ˈhō-lə-ˌkȯst
, -ˈhä- also -ˌkäst or -ˈhȯ-lə-kȯst\
, -ˈhä- also -ˌkäst or -ˈhȯ-lə-kȯst\
Definition of post-Holocaust
: existing or occurring after the Holocaust of World War II
post-Holocaust literature the post-Holocaust generation Cohen wrote for post-Holocaust times, bravely countering Theodore Adorno's notion that there could be no poetry after Auschwitz.— Mark Kidel
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