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Holocaust Vocabulary
Selected words from the Holocaust Vocab list
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anti-Semitism | hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or ethnic minority group, often accompanied by social, economic, or political discrimination. |
| Aryan | in Nazi Germany, non-Jewish and non-Gypsy Caucasians. People with Nordic features were the most superior. |
| Auschwitz | Largest Nazi death camp, located in Poland. |
| Birkenau | also known as Auschwitz 2, contained the large-scale killing apparatus at Auschwitz. |
| Buchenwald | large concentration camp established in 1937 in north-central Germany. |
| concentration camp | "camps" 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 |
| death's head | the skull insignia, worn on the collar lapel, for SS units that adminstered and guarded the concentration camps. |
| emaciate | to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin |
| fascism | a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. |
| genocide | The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. |
| Gestapo | The German Secret State Police, which was under the command of Himmler and the SS |
| ghetto | A confined area of a city in which members of a minority group are compelled to live because of social, legal, or economic pressure. The first Jew-exclusive ghetto was in Venice in 1516. |
| 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 |
| Job | in the Old Testament, a man whose faith was severely tested by Satan, with God's permission. Fuguratively, any long suffering person can be said to be "as patient as Job." |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass; German police invaded Jew's home and stole their belongings. |
| Dr. Josef Mengele | SS physician assigned to Auschzwitz; notorious for "medical experiments" on inmates, especially twins and dwarves. |
| Passover | a Jewish holiday commemorating the Hebrews' liberation from slavery in Egypt. |
| Rosh Hashanah | the festival of the New Year in Judaism. ROsh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the eight days in between are specail dasys of penitence. |
| Swastika | Nazi symbol; used to mean "good luck." |
| selection | The process of deciding who goes to the gas chambers and who gets to live. |
| Talmud | collections of rabbinic commentray on biblical texts that form. |
| Torah | Foundation for the religious laws of Judaism. |
| yellow star | badge featuring hte Star of David used by the Nazis during the Holocause as a method of identifying jews in Germany and in some areas occupied by ther Germans. |
| Yom Kippur | a Jewish holy day marked by fasting and prayer for the atonement of sins |
| Zionism | a Jewish movement that arose in teh late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and European nationalism. One of its primary aims was to re-establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The present day state of Issrael was created after WWII. |
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