(Hebrew): It means "destruction" or "devastation," commonly used to refer to the Holocaust. Because the word "holocaust" originally meant "sacrifice," many Jews object to that term for the Nazi murders of the Jews, and prefer the use of the term "shoah."
(Hebrew, "chaos, destruction, catastrophe") — Term widely used in Israel and increasingly used in the United States to denote the murder of the Jews by the Nazis. See Holocaust.
The biblical word used to describe the extrmination of the Jews in Europe. Original meaning was a sacrificial holocaust.
a Hebrew word meaning "Desolation." Shoah has come to be the preferred term for the Holocaust by Jewish scholars who feel that "Holocaust" has lost much of its significance through overuse.
The Hebrew word for the Holocaust.
The Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
Holocaust - Outcome of Nazi state antisemitism in the planned Genocide of European, Soviet, Balkan and N. African Jewry under Hitler - before and during the Second World War. An estimated 6 million Jews were annihilated in death camps, concentration camps and regional massacres. Post-war survivors were not allowed to come to Eretz Yisrael in excess of the annual Mandate quota. See also EXODUS.
The Hebrew word meaning "catastrophe," denoting the catastrophic destruction of European Jewry during World War II. The term is used in Israel, and the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) has designated an official day, called Yom ha-Shoah, as a day of commemorating the Shoah or Holocaust.
Originally a biblical term meaning widespread disaster. In modern times it is the Hebrew equivalent for the Holocaust.
Shoah is a nine-hour film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust (or Shoah). 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 photos; instead it consists of interviews with people who were involved in various ways in the Holocaust, and visits to different places they discuss.
