Shoah

/ ˈʃɔɑː /

noun

1. (in secular Judaism) a Hebrew word for holocaust See also Churban

Word History and Origins

Origin of Shoah¹

literally: destruction

Example Sentences

He touted several programs and institutions with a presence at the Washington campus, including the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy & Government Service and the Shoah Foundation.

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Thirty-five red handprints were left on the Shoah memorial.

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He denies that the country the survivors of the pogroms and the Shoah have built over the past 77 years has the right to exist as a Jewish state.

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“We can rage against the heinous acts committed by the terrorists of October 7th and also decry the killing of innocent women and children in Gaza,” Spielberg said during an event celebrating the anniversary of the USC Shoah Foundation.

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“Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah,” the ADL said in a statement from its official account.

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