Wikisage, the free encyclopedia of the second generation, is digital heritage

Shoah

From Wikisage
Revision as of 23:30, 1 September 2019 by Penarc (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
  1. Lanzmann film

Shoah [1] means catastrophe[2], to describe the annihilation of a third of Jewish people by the Nazi before and during the WWII, rather than the English word Holocaust from Gr. whole burnt, refering Septuagint to sacrifice by fire as distinct from the Hebrew term for sacrificial offering, olah.