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Shoah.

The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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name/ˈʃəʊ.ə/UK/ˈʃoʊ.ə/US
  1. The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

    Jewish
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From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).

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