Shoah
See also: shoah
English
Proper noun
Shoah
- The systematic mass murder of 6 million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
- 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
- I never knew him, or any of my other relatives who died in the Shoah. But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial.
- 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
Usage notes
The term "Holocaust" may be synonymous with "Shoah" or may denote something broader; see the usage note at Holocaust.
Translations
the systematic mass murder of 6 million Jews — see Holocaust
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