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Headline text Shoah is a Hebrew word meaning "disaster" or "conflagration". "The Shoa" or, with the addition of "Ha






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Shoah
Shoah

Headline text Shoah is a Hebrew word meaning "disaster" or "conflagration". "The Shoa" or, with the addition of "Ha" , HaShoah is commonly used to refer to the Holocaust....
 is a Hebrew word meaning "disaster" or "conflagration". "The Shoa" or, with the addition of "Ha" (meaning 'The' In Hebrew), HaShoah is commonly used to refer to the Holocaust
The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as , Churben is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler....
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Shoah may also refer too:

  • Shoah (film)
    Shoah (film)

    Shoah is a nine-hour film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust . Though Shoah is conventionally classified as a documentary film, director Lanzmann considers it to fall outside of that genre, as, unlike most historical documentaries, the film does not feature reenactments or historical footage; instead it consists...
    , a documentary film by Claude Lanzmann
  • Shoah Foundation
    Shoah Foundation

    Shoah foundations are organizations that are formed to further the remembrance of the Holocaust of World War II. There are currently two major foundations that are internationally active....
    , an organization formed to further the remembrance of the Holocaust of World War II
  • Yom HaShoah
    Yom HaShoah

    Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura , known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English language as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust....
    , the Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust and its victims