Shoahn.

1967 Judaism 16 267 We speak of it as ‘the Holocaust’. But there have been other holocausts, and they were nothing like this. In such a linguistic perplexity Jews..turn to Hebrew... Thus we try the word sho'ah.

1971 Encycl. Judaica VIII. 831 The ‘Holocaust’ (also known as the Catastrophe, the Sho'ah.., the Ḥurban).. is the most tragic period of Jewish Diaspora history.

1986 Times 5 Mar. 14/5 Cardinal Hume said..he personally regarded the Nazi Holocaust—the Shoah—as the most shameful episode in human history.

1988 Times 9 July 11/1 A gathering of distinguished Jewish and Christian theologians, historians, and other experts on the Shoah—as the holocaust is more properly called.

1988 J. Bowden Jesus xi. 166 The experience of the Holocaust, the Shoah, and Christian failure to react more firmly..to Hitler's persecution of the Jews still casts its dark shadow.