Shoah

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Shoah may refer to a number of things:

  • Shoah or Ha Shoah (literally denoting a "catastrophic upheaval") is the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
  • Shoah is a documentary film by Claude Lanzmann based primarily upon the Holocaust and the German extermination camps in WWII Nazi occupied Poland.
  • The Shoah Foundation is devoted to recording the testimonies of survivors of Shoah.
  • Yom HaShoah is the Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust and its victims, a national day of remembrance in the State of Israel
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