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Meaning of Shoah | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈʃəʊ.ə

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Español Shoá
Français Shoah
עברית השואה
Italiano shoah
Polski Shoah

Examples

“I never knew him, or any of my other relatives who died in the Shoah. But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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