Shoah
noun
Sho·ah ˈshō-ə -ˌä
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The Canada native worked for a time in Los Angeles with the Steven Spielberg Shoah Foundation interviewing Holocaust survivors as part of a drive to record their personal histories.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
Only one month after Kamenets-Podolsky, in one of the worst massacres of the Shoah, 33,771 Jews from Kyiv, Ukraine were slaughtered in two days (September 29 and 30, 1941) at Babi Yar, a ravine on the city’s outskirts.
—Dr. Irving Berkowitz, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
The initiative is a joint project of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation, Meta, Makemepulse and UNESCO.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
Speaking at Spielberg's USC Shoah Foundation 30th Anniversary Ambassadors for Humanity Gala at New York Hilton Midtown on Sunday, Oct. 13, the actress, 75, said kind words about the filmmaker, 77, at his event which remembers the Holocaust.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
Two years later, Lasker-Wallfisch gave an extensive interview to the U.S.C. Shoah Foundation.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
Beyond his professional achievements, Marvin is a true mensch — a devoted father and husband (he and his wife Carol have been married 72 years!) and an avid supporter of the Shoah Foundation’s ongoing work.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2024
Claude Lanzmann’s documentaries and particularly Shoah inspired the writers’ approach.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 July 2024
Further setting Holocaust education up for success, nonprofits ranging from USC’s Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, have been supporting teachers for decades.
—Boaz Dvir, TIME, 6 May 2024
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www.haaretz.com › jewish › holocaust-remembrance-dayShoah: How a Biblical Term Became the Hebrew Word for Holocaust -...
May 1, 2019 · At its core, the term describes an animal sacrifice totally burnt on an altar in order to please a god.
www.haaretz.com › jewish › holocaust-remembrance-dayShoah: How a Biblical Term Became the Hebrew Word for Holocaust -...
May 1, 2019 · At its core, the term describes an animal sacrifice totally burnt on an altar in order to please a god.
In Hebrew, we use a different word, which is also ancient: shoah (sho-Ah). The word appears in the Bible more than a dozen times, always to signify complete and utter destruction.
www.britannica.com › story › what-is-the-origin-of-the-termWhat Is the Origin of the Term Holocaust? | Britannica
In Israel and France, Shoʾah, a biblical Hebrew word meaning “catastrophe,” became the preferred term for the event, largely in response to director Claude Lanzmann’s influential nine-and-a-half-hour 1985 motion picture documentary of the same name.
Author: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
www.theholocaustexplained.org › what-was-the-holocaustWhat was the Holocaust? – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for...
The Holocaust is the term for the genocide of around six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators during the Second World War. The Holocaust is also sometimes referred to as the Shoah, the Hebrew word for catastrophe. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis sought to eliminate the entire Jewish community of Europe.
sfi.usc.edu › content › what-shoahWhat is Shoah? - USC Shoah Foundation
In Hebrew, “shoah” literally means catastrophe. Used as a proper noun, “Shoah” refers to attempts to eradicate the Jewish population of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s by Nazis during and before World War II.
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www.britannica.com › story › what-is-the-origin-of-the-termWhat Is the Origin of the Term Holocaust? | Britannica
In Israel and France, Shoʾah, a biblical Hebrew word meaning “catastrophe,” became the preferred term for the event, largely in response to director Claude Lanzmann’s influential nine-and-a-half-hour 1985 motion picture documentary of the same name.
Author: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
www.theholocaustexplained.org › what-was-the-holocaustWhat was the Holocaust? – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for...
The Holocaust is the term for the genocide of around six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators during the Second World War. The Holocaust is also sometimes referred to as the Shoah, the Hebrew word for catastrophe. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis sought to eliminate the entire Jewish community of Europe.
sfi.usc.edu › content › what-shoahWhat is Shoah? - USC Shoah Foundation
In Hebrew, “shoah” literally means catastrophe. Used as a proper noun, “Shoah” refers to attempts to eradicate the Jewish population of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s by Nazis during and before World War II.
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