Shoah

Jewish catastrophe term

Shoah is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust—the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II.

The term, meaning "catastrophe" or "destruction," is preferred by many Jews as more precise than Holocaust, which has broader meanings and religious connotations.

Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Shoah.

historical

Holocaust

Nazi genocide of Jews

genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
exterminationComplete destruction of a group
NaziGerman fascist party member

concentration camps · death camps · Auschwitz · deportation · gas chambers · cattle cars · ghettos · yellow star · Nuremberg · liberation

memorial

remembrance

Act of holding something in mind

testimonySworn statement as evidence
witnessOne who attests
memorialThing preserving remembrance

museum · commemoration · candles · documentation · archive · names · photographs · artifacts · plaques · eternal flame

cultural

documentary

Factual film about reality

testimonySworn statement as evidence
oral historyRecorded interviews about the past
filmMovie or coating

witnesses · interview · memory · trauma · representation · unrepresentable · absence · voice · face · survivor testimony

theological

theodicy

Defense of divine goodness

sufferingSustained experience of distress
covenantBinding formal pledge
faithTrust without proof

evil · Job · chosenness · rupture · doubt · meaning · survival · continuity · questioning

Shoah

Holocaust

remembrance

documentary

theodicy

Shoah

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