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Vocabulary-Holocaust
Herron, Holocaust, vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anti-Semitism | discrimination or persecution of Jews |
| Appelplatz | roll call area inside concentration, labor, and death camps |
| Aryan | racial term used by Nazis to describe a "race" they believed to be superior; it has no biological validity |
| Bericha | Hebrew for "flight"; name given to those who aided Jews in their escape to Palestine after the Holocaust |
| concentration camp | place where political prisoners were kept |
| crematorium | furnaces where human bodies were burned |
| deportation | the forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied lands to concentration camps |
| death camps | Nazi centers of murder and extermination |
| death marches | imposed upon prisoners by the Nazis in order to keep them from liberatoin by the Allied forces |
| Einsatzgruppen | SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the Soviet Union |
| euthanasia | the policy of "mercy killing" the old and handicapped |
| final solution | the Nazi term for the annihilation of the Jews in Europe |
| genocide | the systematic elimination of a people or nation |
| Gestapo | abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei (secret state police) |
| ghetto | the section of a city where Jews were forced to live |
| holocaust | term used to refer to the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945; also included extermination of Gypsies and Poles |
| Juden | German for "Jews" |
| Judenrat | head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in each Jewish ghetto |
| Judenrein | German term that means "pure" or "clean" of Jews |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Glass"; Nazi-organized riot against the Jews on Nov. 9-10, 1938 |
| Nazi | acronym for the National Socialist German Workers Party |
| pogroms | organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people |
| prejudice | an attitude toward a person or group of people formed without adequate information |
| racism | practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race |
| scapegoat | an innocent person blamed for the problems of another |
| selection | the procedure used to determine who would live and who would die in death and labor camps; usually carried out by doctors |
| Swastika | symbol of the Nazi party; originally an ancient religious symbol |
| Uebermenschen | Nazi term for "supermen," the racial ideal |
| yellow cloth Star of David | sewn to clothing to identify Jews |
| Zyklon-B | the gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers at the death camps |
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herronm
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