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| | Holocaust :: links and related |
 | | Shoa (השואה), also spelled Shoah and Sho'ah, Hebrew for "Calamity", is the Hebrew term for the Holocaust; Churban Europa Hebrew for "European Destruction" (as opposed to simply Churban, the destruction of the Second Temple), is also used. |
| | Shoa is preferred by many Jews and a growing number of Christians due to theological discomfort with the literal meaning of the word Holocaust. |
| | The word Holocaust comes from the Greek word holokauston (Greek for "a completely ( holos) burnt ( kaustos) sacrificial offering"), the word meant "a burnt sacrifice offered to God", referring to a sacrifice Jews were required to make by the Torah, and later to large scale catastrophes or massacres. |
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