Holocaust Vocabulary

Hostility to jew as indeviduals, to judaism as a religion, to the jewish people as a group.

A non-jewish, Nordic-type Caucasian, in Nazi terminology, descended from a mythical, superior race.

Largest and most notorius death camp.

Vehicle for the transportation of animals used for the transportation of jews during the Holocaust.

Place where political dissidents, members of minority groups, etc. Were confined. Camps ussually consisted of multiple buildings (barracks, offices, gas chambers, etc.) enclosed behind fences.

A furnace used to burn dead bodies after they were gassed.

Extermination center built by the Nazis.

The act of expelling someone from his/her country.

A person with no home to return to.

Nazi official in charge of orginizing and implementing the final solution.

Term the Nazis used to mean the extermanation of jews.

A room where ventilation is sealed so that the gas can be used to suffocate people to death.

The deliberate and systematic detsruction of a racial, political,cultural, or religious group.

Nazi secret police.

A section of a city in which the jews were required to live during the Holocaust.

Nazi minister of propaganda.

Systamatic extermanation of six million European jews during W.W.II. many non-jews also perished.

Jewish mystical tradition.

A prayer of mourning.

November 9, 1939. 7500 jewish shop windows were broken, most German synagogues were burned, and 20,000 jews were shipped to concentration camps.

The act of getting rid of.

The book in which Hitler clearly detials his plans to carry out his final solution.

Member of the German Fascist party founded in 1919 and abolished in 1945. Main principles were racism, rearmament, nationalism, and aggression.

Nazi laws that denied jews their basic human rights, including citizenship. These laws also began the process of defining who was considered Jewish under the law.

To take possession of by settlment or by military force.

Small leather case holding scripts inscribed with scripture.

A spring-time Jewish holiday.

Nazi officers who preformed the central tasks of the final solution.

Important Judiac text pertaining to Jewish laws, ethnics, customs, and history.

The term applied to national socialist Nazi Germany.

The most holy of the sacred writings in Judaism.

A government or docterine in which the party in power maintains complete control of the government and makes all other parties illegal.

The movement for the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish people.

Kabbalistic works.