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shoah
Shoah (name) means the systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
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The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
"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."
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (1999)
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Etymology
From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).
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"shoah" (name) means the systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.