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SOC Holocaust Quiz
Brock Sociology Holocaust Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anti-Semitism | hostility toward or discrimination against Jews |
| Aryan | in Nazi Germany, non-Jewish and non-Gypsy Caucasians. |
| Auschwitz | Largest Nazi death camp, located in Poland. |
| concentration camp | Areas establised to detain and if necessary, kill, enemies of the state. |
| crematory | am establishment containing a furnace for reducing dead bodies to ashes by burning |
| emaciate | to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin |
| genocide | The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. |
| Gestapo | The German Secret State Police |
| ghetto | A confined area of a city in which members of a minority group are compelled to live. The Jews were forced to live here during the beginning of the Holocaust. |
| Heinrich Himmler | Head of SS and Chief of German Police. In charge of the Gestapo, concentration camps. |
| Adolf Hitler | Fuhrer of Nazi movement; 1889-1945 |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass; German police invaded Jew's homes and businesses and stole their belongings. |
| Dr. Josef Mengele | SS physician assigned to Auschzwitz; notorious for "medical experiments" on inmates, especially twins and dwarves. |
| Swastika | Nazi symbol; used to mean "good luck." |
| Talmud | Jewish book of laws. |
| Torah | Jewish holy book. Contains the first five books of the Christian Bible. Aka the Five Books of Moses. |
| yellow star | Used by the Nazis during the Holocaust as a method of identifying Jews. The Jews were forced to wear these on their jackets and shirts. |
| What "Holocaust" means. | Sacrafice by fire |
| Nazi | A member of the National Socialist German Worker's Party during World War II |
| Jews | First monotheistic religion. Founded by Abraham. |
| Roma | Another word for gypsys. |
| Collaborators | Someone who helps someone else. In the Holocaust, these were people who helped the Nazis. |
| Final Solution | At the end of World War II, this was the plan to try to eleminate all of the Jews from the entire world. |
| Euthanasia Program | Literally means "assisted suicide". The Nazis used this program to kill people that they did not feel were fit to live such as the handicapped and homosexuals. |
| Tyranny | Unfair rule. |
| Persecute | To treat someone unfairly or to annoy them persistently. |
| Incarcerate | To put someone in jail. |
| Einsatzgruppen | Nazi mobile killing units. Soldiers would go from town to town killing all the Jews in each down. |
| Incinerate | To burn into ashes. |
| Liberate | To set free. |
| Blood Libel | An allegation, recurring during the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries, that Jews were killing Christian children to use their blood for the ritual of making unleavened bread. A red mold which occasionally appeared on the bread started this myth. |
| Death marches | Forced marches of prisoners over long distances and under intolerable conditions was another way victims of the Third Reich were killed. |
| Diaspora | a mass movement of a group of people from one place to another. |
| Fuhrer | German for leader |
| Joseph Goebbels | Nazi Propaganda Director |
| Kippa | Hebrew name for the skullcap Jews wear |
| Yamulka | Yiddish name for the skullcap Jews wear |
| Madagascar Plan | A Nazi policy that was seriously considered during the late 1930s and 1940s which would have sent Jews to an island off the southeast coast of Africa |
| Mitzvah | Hebrew word meaning "a good deed." |
| Nuremberg Trials | Trials of twenty-two major Nazi figures in Germany in 1945 and 1946 before the International Military Tribunal. |
| Nuremberg Laws | Deprived all Jews of their civil rights, and the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" made marriages and extra-marital sexual relationships between Jews and Germans punishable by imprisonment. |
| Perpetrators | Those who do something that is morally wrong or criminal |
| Rabbi | Leader of a Jewish congregation, similar to the role of a priest or minister. |
| Righteous Gentiles | Non-Jewish people who, during the Holocaust, risked their lives to save Jewish people from Nazi persecution. |
| Scapegoat | Person or group of people blamed for crimes committed by others. |
| Shoah /sho a/ | The Hebrew word meaning "catastrophe," denoting the catastrophic destruction of European Jews during World War II. |
| Social Darwinism | A concept based on the idea of "survival of the fittest" applied to people. It states that some races are more fit to survive than others. |
| Synagogue /sin a gog/ | Jewish house of worship, similar to a church. |
| Yiddish | A language that combines elements of German and Hebrew. |
| Zionism | Political and cultural movement calling for the return of the Jewish people to their Biblical home. |
| Zyklon B | (Hydrogen cyanide) Pesticide used in some of the gas chambers at the death camps. |
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