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Sho⋅a

[shoh-uh]
–noun
the Holocaust.
Also, Shoah.


Origin:
< Heb
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Sho·ah   (shō'ə)   
n.  The mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis during World War II.

[Hebrew šô'â, calamity; see šw in Semitic roots.]
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