The first recorded use of the term "holocaust" in its modern sense was in 1895 by "The New York Times" to describe the massacre of Armenian Christians by Ottoman Muslims. The term comes from the ; "hólos", "whole" + "kaustós", "burnt offering". The biblical term "shoah" (), meaning "destruction", became the standard Hebrew term for the murder of the European Jews. According to "Haaretz", the writer Yehuda Erez may have been the first to describe events in Germany as the "shoah". "Davar" and later "Haaretz" both used the term in September 1939. Yom HaShoah became Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day in 1951.