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Holocaust Vocabulary
Holocaust voc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allies | The group of 26 nations led by Great Britain, The United States, and the Soviet Union that opposed Germany, Italy, and Japan (known as the Axis Partners) in WWII |
| Anti-Semitism | The prejudice, discrimination, dislike, fear, and persecution of Jews. |
| Aryan | In Nazi racial theory, a person of pure German "blood." The term "non-Aryan" was used to designate jews, part-Jews, and others of supposedly "inferior" racial stock. |
| Atrocity | An act which is shockingly brutal or outrageously cruel and barbaric. |
| Auschwitz | The largest of the Nazi concentration camps, located in southwestern Poland. More than one million Jews were murdered there. All inhabitants of the Secret Annex were sent to Auschwitz in Sep 1944. |
| Bergen-Belsen | A concentration camp in northern Germany originally designed as a location for holding high-ranking Jews that were to be traded later for German soldiers. |
| Blitzkrieg | "Lightning War", first used in the German invasion of Poland |
| Bystander | An onlooker; one who is present at an event but does not participate in it |
| Concentration Camps | Prison camps that held Jews, political and religious opponents of the Nazis |
| Crematorium | Building containing ovens or furnaces used to burn the bodies of prisoners of concentration and death camps |
| Dehumanization | Nazi policy of denying Jews basic civil rights such as practicing religion, education, and adequate housing |
| Deportation | The forced removal of Jews from their homes in Nazi-occupied countries |
| Displaced Persons (DP) Camp | A temporary shelter of tents or other housing established by the Allies to serve the needs of refugees |
| The Final Solution | Nazi's plan for the physical destruction of all of Europe's Jewish population |
| Der Fuhrer | Title fo the leader of Germany; usually referring to Adolf Hitler |
| Gas Chambers | Sealed off and air-tight areas where large numbers of people could be killed by poisonous gas which was piped into the chambers. The gas chamber was the primary method of murder used in the death camps |
| Genocide | Deliberate, systematic murder of an entire political, cultural, racial, or religious group |
| Gestapo | Acronym for Geheime Staatspolizei, meaning Secret State Police. |
| Ghetto | A restricted area, usually in the poorest part of town, where Jews were forced to live |
| Holocaust | Derived from the Greek holokauston which meant a sacrifice totally burned by fire. Today, the term refers to the systematic, planned extermination of about 6 million European Jews |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Glass" used as an excuse by the Nazi's S.S. to carry out three nights of violence against the Jews all over Germany |
| Mein Kampf | My Struggle Adof Hitler's autobiography written during his imprisonment; details Hitler's plan to make Europe "Jew-free" |
| Neo-Nazis | People living today who sympathize with the views of the Nazis |
| Nuremberg Trials | A series of trials which charged high-ranking German leaders with war crimes and "crimes against humanity" |
| Occupation | forced control of a country by a foreign military power. |
| Partisans | Native gorilla fighters who resisted Nazi rule after their countries were invaded |
| Perpetrator | The one who is responsible for an act; one who commits a violation. One who participated in atrocities and other crimes against the Jews |
| Pogrom | Organized violence against Jews, often with the support of the government |
| Propaganda | False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of the population |
| Reparations | Payments made by the losers of a war to the victors or to war victims to compensate them for damages |
| Resuer | One who comes to save the victim |
| Resistance | The "underground" organizations working to help the Jews fight against the Nazi army |
| Revisionists | Those who rewrite history for political or ideological purposes |
| Sabotage | Deliberate destruction |
| Scapegoat | A person or group who bears the blame for others because of the prejudice of the guilty party |
| Sonderkommando | The "Special Commando" consisted of prisoners of the death camps who were forced to take the bodies of those who had been gassed to the burial pits or crematoria |
| S.S. | Originally organized as Hitler's personal bodyguards, was transformed into a giant organization by Heinric Himmler. |
| Swastika | A religious symbol of prosperity found in many ancient civilizations. Became the official symbol of the Nazi party |
| Terezin | Concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where children wrote poems and drew pictures to escape the horrors they knew were waiting for them in the gas chambers to the East. |
| Third Reich | The Nazi name for Germany and the occupied territories of Europe from January 1933 to April 1945 |
| Victim | The one who is the target of an act; on harmed or killed by another |
| War crimes | Violations of international agreements governing the conduct of war, such as mistreatment of prisoners, murder, or forced labor of occupied civilian populations |
| Westerbork | A transit camp in northeastern Holland through which almost 100,000 Jews were deported between 1942 and 1944 |
| Yellow Star | The six-pointed Star of David was a Jewish symbol that the Nazis forced Jews above the age of 6 to wear as a mark of shame and to make Jews visible |
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