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holocaust words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pogroms | An organized and often officially encouraged massacre of or attack on Jews |
| Death Camps (extermination camps) | Where Jews went and stayed until they got killed- six in Poland- Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek |
| Concentration Camps | forced labor camps |
| Death Marches | leaving from camp through day and night traveling to the next camp |
| Gestapo | Acronym for Geheime Staatspolizei, meaning Secret State Police, Prior to the outbreak of war, the Gestapo used brutal methods to investigate and suppress resistance to Nazi rule within Germany |
| Nuremberg Laws | Two anti-Jewish statutes enacted in September 1935, during the Nazi party's national convention in Nuremberg, removed civil rights of Jews. |
| Nuremberg Trials | series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany |
| Deportation | expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country |
| Kapo | was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks in the camp |
| “Final Solution” | The code name for the plan to destroy all of Europe’s Jews - the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question. Starting in December 1941, Jews were rounded up and sent to extermination camps in the East. The program was deceptively disguised as "resettlement |
| SS (Schutzstaffel | Originally organized as Hitler's personal bodyguard, the SS was transformed into a giant organization by Heinrich Himmler. Although various SS units fought on the battlefield, the organization is best known for carrying out the destruction of Europe Jews |
| Resistance | “underground" organizations working to help the Jews against Hitler/Nazi army |
| Gas Chambers | type chamber where gas pours out and kills them |
| Anti-Semitism | Systematic prejudice against Jews |
| Kristallnacht | A German word for "Night of the Broken Glass"; a night of rioting in Germany, November 9, 1938, when Jewish property was destroyed – 8,000 Jewish-owned shops were ransacked -- and many Jews were killed. |
| Crematorium | a place where bodies are burned in furnaces |
| Genocide | deliberate and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, national or cultural group |
| Nazi party | Members of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, which started in Germany and was based on hate, prejudice and rule by threat of violence |
| Ghetto | was a section of a city where all Jews from the surrounding areas were forced to reside. Surrounded by barbed wire or walls, the ghettos were often sealed so that people were prevented from leaving or entering |
| Holocaust | The destruction of some 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in Europe between the years 1933-1945. Other individuals and groups were persecuted and suffered grievously during this period, but only the Jews were marked for complete and death |
| Reichstag | German word for "empire" The Nazis hoped to establish a Greater German Reich that was “judenfrei” |
| Aryan Race | term originally applied to people who spoke any Indo-European language/from Central Asia. In Holocaust terms it means a new German race |
| Star of David | Two equilateral triangles, one triangle represents the ruling tribe of Judah and the other the former ruling tribe of Benjamin/ Symbol for Jewish society and Judaism |
| Xenophobia | an unreasonable fear of foreigners or strangers |
| Zionism | Fervent desire of Jews of the Diaspora to return to their ancestral homeland, then called Palestine |
| “Protocols of the Elders of Zion | major piece of anti-Semitic propaganda, compiled at the turn of the 20th century by members of the Russian Secret Police |
| Swastika | really means any lucky object/ Symbol of Nazi Party/ |
| Yad Vashem | museum in Jerusalem dedicated to the memory of Holocaust victims |
| “Arbeit macht frei” | means works sets you free or work liberates you |
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