The Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) has advised changing the Russian language rule and capitalizing the word “Holocaust.”
Such an approach will avoid blurring the concept itself. This was said Thursday by the head of the RJC press service, Mikhail Savin. According to him, an official appeal has already been sent to the Spelling Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Russian Language named after VV Vinogradov.
“In January, Russia hosted the annual Holocaust Remembrance Week. We have noticed that many, including the federal media, write the word ‘Holocaust’ with a (small) lowercase letter,” he said.
However, the Holocaust, according to RJC, is not synonymous with genocide, but a very specific concept that means the mass destruction of Jews by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, writes CASS .
