Shoah

noun

Sho·​ah ˈshō-ə How to pronounce Shoah (audio)
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Examples of Shoah in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That history — Germany’s political and social response to the Shoah, sometimes referred to as Erinnerungskultur, or culture of remembrance — will always be at the center of any discussion in Berlin on Israel and Palestine. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024 In the tradition of films like Shoah, Glazer never quite looks the horror in the eye. Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023 Holocaust education had been ongoing in U.S. public schools since the 1970s, and Holocaust remembrance was central to American Jews’ political consciousness, but the early 1990s arguably brought understanding of the Shoah to a new level for the country at large. Emily Tamkin, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023 Oral histories collected by the USC Shoah Foundation and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum testify to Wijsmuller’s bravery, as do the stories shared by the 29 survivors featured in Truus’ Children. Cari Shane, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023 For Israelis and their supporters around the world, the triumph of Israel is the extraordinary transformation from Holocaust to national revival or, in Hebrew, from Shoah to Tekuma. Avner Cohen, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2023 Additional organizations supporting this crucial event include The Ruderman Family Foundation, Starlight Creative, the USC Shoah Foundation, the Holocaust Museum LA, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee. William Earl, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023 Aguilar currently oversees metadata and indexing at University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2023 One respondent put the 26-second, 8-millimeter Zapruder footage, taken in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, third on their list, behind Shoah and Triumph of the Will. J. Hoberman, The New Republic, 22 June 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Modern Hebrew shō'āh, literally, catastrophe, from Hebrew

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Shoah was in 1967

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“Shoah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Shoah. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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