April 27th. I heaped on the bed the treasures I wanted to burn, matches lying ready to fire the whole at the last minute. I may here say that, when all was over, I found I had omitted many things from the holocaust. This very diary was not included. It would have afforded vast amusement to the Yankees. There may yet be occasion to burn them, and the house also. People fortunately changed their minds about the auto-da-fé just then; and the Yankees have not yet arrived, at sundown. So, when the excitement calmed down, poor Lilly tumbled in bed in a high fever in consequence of terror and exertion. –A Confederate Girl’s Diary, Sarah Morgan Dawson What is the best definition of the word holocaust as it is used in this passage? a thorough destruction of people and property a sacrifice that is intentionally destroyed by fire any kind of mass slaughter or willful destruction of life the killing of Jewish people and other groups by Nazi Germany