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Holocaust Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allies | Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, which fought against Germany, Italy, and Japan, referred to as the Axis. |
| Anschluss (ON-shluss) | Annexation; refers to the March 12, 1938 annexation of Austria by Germany. |
| Anti-Semitism | Systematic prejudice against Jews. |
| Aryan | Under the Nazis, this word was applied to mythical Germanic race and given an underpinning of validity by pseudoscientific definitions. |
| Auschwitz | the German name for Oswiecim, a city in Poland that was the site of one of the largest of the Nazi killing centers, (Auschwitz-Birkenau) as well as a concentration camp and labor camp for I. G. Farben. |
| Babi Yar (bobby-YAR) | A deep ravine outside the Ukrainian city of Kiev where 34,000 Jews were killed in September 1941 by mobile killing units (einsatzgruppen) advancing with the German army. |
| Chelmno | Generally thought to be the first of the six death camps in Poland. |
| Concentration Camp | Barracks and other structures built at the beginning of the Third Reich to house enemies of the Third Reich. Concentration camps hand various purposes |
| Death camps (killing centers) | A concentration camp built fore the purpose of killing the inmates. The death camps associated with the Holocaust were in Poland |
| Deportation | Druring the Holocaust, this term was a euphemism for the removal of Jews either from their homes to a ghetto or from a ghetto to a killing center |
| Einsatzgruppen (INE-sats-groopen) | Mobile killing units (“task groups”) that operated during the invasion of the Soviet Union. Their purpose was to kill Jews and others deemed undesirable by the Third Reich. |
| Final solution | Nazi euphemism for the plan to kill the Jews of Europe. Part of the elaborate coded language devised and used by the Nazi command to keep the German people and the intended victims ignorant of the plan. |
| Genocide (Jen-o-side) | the deliberate annihilation of an entire people or nation. |
| Gestapo (guess-Top-oh) | The internal security police of the Third Reich; charged with protecting the regime from political opposition. Under Heinrich Himmler’s command, the Gestapo enjoyed broad investigative powers into every aspect of German life. |
| Ghetto | a walled section of a city in which Jews were forced to live in medieval times. |
| Holocaust | from a Hebrew word meaning “burnt offering.” |
| Judenrat (YOU-den-raht) | Nazi appointed Jewish community authority, ultimately required to choose Jews for transports to the killing centers. |
| Kristallnacht (KRIS-tal-nakht) | the“night of broken glass,”it refers 2 organized attacked by Nazis & their followers against Jewish property, synagogues, & individuals on November 9, 1938. In the aftermath,“for their own protection”Jews were arrested & sent to concentration camps. |
| Nazi, National Socialist German Workers’ Party | A political party taken over by Adolf Hitler in the 1920’s. In 1933, after an indecisive election, Hitler took over the government and established the Third Reich. The Nazi Party became the sole political party in Germany. |
| Nuremberg | A city in Germany where the Reichstag (legislature) met in September 1935 to pass the Nuremberg Laws, which gave legal status to the Nazis’ racial mythology. Ten years later, the International Military Tribunal held war crimes trials there. |
| Pogrom (poe-GROM) | an organized, systematic discriminatory action against Jews. |
| SS “Protection squads,” | Originally referred to Hitler’s elite guard. Eventually the SS were put in charge of the death camps. |
| Shoah (SHOW-ah) | “Desolation” in Hebrew; a word used to refer to the Holocaust. |
| Swastika (SWAH-stick-ah) | an ancient symbol adapted by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany and identified as a symbol of Nazism ever since. |
| Third Reich (Rike) | The name for the Nazi regime in Germany from the end of 1933 to 1945. |
| Wannsee Conference | (VAHN-zay) a conference held on January 20, 1942, in Berlin, at which an action plan for the total annihilation of European Jews was established. |
| Yad Vashem (Uahd-Vah=SHEM) | A museum in Israel dedicated to Holocaust victims. |
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