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 The Shoah Foundation has also been collecting accounts of survivors of the Hamas attacks in Israel in October as part of their Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony Collection initiative. Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024 Spielberg launched Shoah Foundation in 1994, and in 1996, Biniaz recorded her nearly 90-minute testimony for the group. Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024 The Zone of Interest is not a film about the Shoah. Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024 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

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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 24 Apr. 2024.

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