Should “the Holocaust” be discarded, or what’s in a name? Historiography(ies), memory(ies) and metanarrative(s)

Although the term “Holocaust” had begun to emerge in the 1950s as a designation for the fate of the Jews during the Nazi period, the crime, or crimes still had no established and well-known name other than the term “genocide”, “final solution”, extermination”, “mass terror” and ”persecution”. Its ubiquity today might be taken for granted, but tracing the development of the term ”Holocaust” is almost impossible