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The obvious ones that come to mind are the Nazi tattooing numbers on their Jewish victims during the Shoah.
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Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
Not many films are shaped both by John Hughes’s teen movies and Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half-hour Holocaust documentary, Shoah, yet those are the key influences on filmmaker Asaf Saban’s latest feature, Delegation.
—Johanna Berkman, Air Mail, 2 Aug. 2025
Now, both approaching 100 years old, Roth and Moran met to share their stories with the USC Shoah Foundation, which maintains the largest audiovisual archive of Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies.
—Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
For contemporary audiences, the description can also evoke the death marches of Jewish prisoners during the Shoah, the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
—Agnes Mueller, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Israel-Palestine sharpened the divide: Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre re-traumatized a community still marked by the Shoah, even as images of Gazan suffering resonated with Black memories of state violence.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
From early on, the team was in touch with the USC Shoah Foundation, an organization founded by Steven Spielberg shortly after his 1993 film Schindler’s List.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 12 May 2025
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Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
Not many films are shaped both by John Hughes’s teen movies and Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half-hour Holocaust documentary, Shoah, yet those are the key influences on filmmaker Asaf Saban’s latest feature, Delegation.
—Johanna Berkman, Air Mail, 2 Aug. 2025
Now, both approaching 100 years old, Roth and Moran met to share their stories with the USC Shoah Foundation, which maintains the largest audiovisual archive of Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies.
—Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
For contemporary audiences, the description can also evoke the death marches of Jewish prisoners during the Shoah, the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
—Agnes Mueller, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Israel-Palestine sharpened the divide: Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre re-traumatized a community still marked by the Shoah, even as images of Gazan suffering resonated with Black memories of state violence.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
From early on, the team was in touch with the USC Shoah Foundation, an organization founded by Steven Spielberg shortly after his 1993 film Schindler’s List.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 12 May 2025
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“Shoah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Shoah. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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