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shoah

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1. shoah - Noun

2. shoah - Verb

3. Shoah - Proper noun

Meaning

Shoah

(history) The systematic mass murder of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

shoah (plural shoahs)

A mass murder. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

shoah (third-person singular simple present shoahs, present participle shoahing, simple past and past participle shoahed)

(chiefly alt-right slang) To destroy; to remove; to take down, especially from an Internet platform.
I had to create a new account, because my old one was shoahed.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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We can only shape a bright future if we are aware of Germany's enduring responsibility for the ultimate betrayal of all civilised values that was the Shoah. Angela Merkel

George Steiner, the celebrated and polarizing literary critic whose work was shaded by the specter of the Shoah, died February 3 at his home in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. Source: Internet

After the Shoah, Jews cried aloud to God: “O God, how could You do this to us, the children of Your covenant?” Source: Internet

Each kit contains a memorial candle donated by Woolworths Double Bay and Bondi Junction, a card with the name and details about a Holocaust victim, and a prayer to honour them and all victims of the Shoah. Source: Internet

This exhibition portrays the ways in which Jews before, during and after the Shoah expressed their dreams for a brighter future in the Land of Israel, and their fervent hope to rebuild their lives here.” Source: Internet

Maio believed that artificial intelligence technology could make her notion realizable, so she pitched her idea to Stephen Smith, the executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles, and now her husband. Source: Internet

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