2 a turning away from a course or standard any departure from the modernist orthodoxy was scorned by the city's cultural elite Synonyms deflection, divergence, detour, deviation, divagation, divergency, diversionRelated Words regression, retrogression, reversionNear Antonyms adherence.
Consider the estimates provided by Buszko at the end of his article on Auschwitz, which appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust: 1  Of the 405,000 registered prisoners, 65,000 survived. 2  Of the 16,000 Soviet POW's, 96 survived. 3  Various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered.
Anne Frank Home. Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. In addition, approximately five million others, including Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, people with physical or mental disabilities, communists, homosexuals, and Jehovah's Witnesses were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy. Below are the stories of seven rescuers and five Jewish survivors. Find out more about a rescuer or survivor by clicking his or her name. Then, write and discuss in class why you think that person is courageous.