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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.
    Jewish

Equivalents

Español Shoá
Français Shoah
Italiano 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

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

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