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The Germans have borrowed the word from English to replace the expression Voelkermord an den Juden (genocide of the Jews).It is not some German word borrowed into English.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoWe call it HaShoah, השואה in Hebrew, meaning "the destruction" or "the calamity."
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∙ 15y agoThe Hebrew word shoah means disaster, catastrophe, great calamity.
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∙ 15y agoIn Hebrew it is referred to as the Shoa.
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What did they call the Jews?
If you mean during the holocaust, they were still called jews.
What do the Jews call the holocaust?
the shoah
What do Jews call the period between 1939 and 1945?
The Holocaust. ______ The Holocaust refers to the actual genocide, not to the period and not to World War 2. Many Jews call it the Shoah.
What do we call nazi Germany's destruction of about six millon Jews?
We call it the Holocaust.
What does the holocaust mean-?
The Holocaust is when Hitler killed the Jews and kept them in prison camps.
What do we call Nazi Germany's destruction of over 6 milions Jews?
We call it the holocaust.
What was the attempt by Hitler and the Nazis to murder the Jews in Europe called?
Professional historians call it the Holocaust.
The name given to the killing of jews by Hitler?
In English we call it 'The Holocaust'.
What were the discrimination against Catholics and Jews?
presumably you mean by the Catholics against the Jews; it was called the Holocaust. Though what happened in Yugoslavia was independent of the Holocaust, the victims are counted in with the victims of the Holocaust.
Mass slaughter of Jews?
The Germans at the time called it "the Final solution". The Jews to whom it was done call it the "holocaust". What ever it was called it was a genocide of massive proportions.
Were Jews in the Holocaust considered civilians?
The Jews targeted in the Holocaust were civilians.
Would you have Jews in the Holocaust?
there would not have been the Holocaust without the Jews.
