At the age of 62, one can retire with social security benefits within the US, and is considered to be the age of a senior citizen by many organizations. However, the federal government has determined one who is 65 years of age or older is senior citizen. Organizations such as AARP and most businesses consider age 55 as senior citizen and you would receive the standard senior discounts. So there are various opinions, but age 55 is about the youngest considered age.
The word Shoah in Hebrew means catastrophe, abyss, disaster or destruction and is used in many contexts such as Shoah ecologit - ecological disaster or Shoah Svivatit - environmental disaster. HaShoah with the definite article refers to The Disaster or The Holocaust..
The sign reads; 'Work makes you free'. In fact, Jews and other groups went through this gateway to their death, rather than to freedom. Â© 2011 Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. The Holocaust (Shoah) was a unique event in 20th century history.It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered.n 1941 there were about 11 million Jews living in Europe; by May 1945 the Nazis had murdered six million of them. One-and-a-half million of these were children.