Shoa

Also spelled Sho'ah.

The killing of 5-7 million of European Jews by the Nazi government during World War II.

Shoa is often referred to as the Holocaust, although this term is also used to refer to all of the ten to fourteen groups of victims, which included Jews, Roma (a.k.a. Gypsies), Russians, Poles, other Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and political prisoners.