The Holocaust (/ ˈhɒləkɔːst / ⓘ HOL-ə-kawst), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (/ ˈʃoʊə / ⓘ SHOH-ə; Hebrew: שּׁוֹאָה, romanized: Shoah, IPA: [ʃoˈʔa], lit. 'Catastrophe'), was the genocide of European …

“Holocaust” is the English term and “Shoah” the Hebrew term used to describe the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Shoah: Directed by Claude Lanzmann. With Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl. Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews …

The Slaughter of Six Million Jews: A Holocaust or a Shoah? What do the terms “holocaust” and “shoah” mean, and what do they reveal about how we view the respective roles of God and the Nazis in the …

Sep 20, 2024 · The Holocaust era began in January 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. It ended in May 1945, when the Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World …

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 …

Shoah is the Hebrew term used to describe the Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies during World War II.

Although the camp was founded for Poles and had a Polish majority among its prisoners for the first two years it was in operation, there were also Jews among the deportees to Auschwitz from the very start.

The Holocaust (The Shoah) was the attempt by the Nazis and their collaborators to murder all the Jews in Europe. Between 1933 to 1945 the Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny …

The genocide of the Jews is also sometimes referred to as Shoah, a Hebrew word for “catastrophe.”