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Title: Holocaust%20Vocabulary


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Holocaust Vocabulary
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Blitzkrieg
  • A swift, sudden military offensive, usually by
    combined air and mobile land forces. Hitlers
    fighting strategy.

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Zionism
  • Jewish movement to reestablish a Jewish homeland
    in Palestine

4
Kapo
  • prisoner given authority over other prisoners

5
Anti-Semitism
  • attitude that creates discrimination against Jews

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Buchenwald
  • concentration camp in central Germany

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Death Marches
  • forced marches of concentration camp prisoners,
    carried out to evacuate camps before the American
    or Russian Armies arrived to liberate prisoners.

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synagogue
  • Jewish house of worship

9
Pogrom
  • an organized, often officially encouraged
    massacre or persecution of a minority group,
    especially one conducted against Jews.

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Auschwitz
  • town in Poland, site of major death camp during
    the Third Reich

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Genocide
  • the systematic and planned extermination of an
    entire national, racial, political, or ethnic
    group.

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Hanukkah
  • Jewish festival characterized chiefly by the
    lighting of the menorah on each night of the
    festival.

13
Gestapo
  • German secret police

14
Kristallnacht
  • night of broken glass, Germans riot destroying
    Jewish homes and businesses

15
Star of David
  • six point star, symbol of Judaism

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Holocaust
  • a sacrifice completely consumed by fire burnt
    offering, the systematic mass slaughter of
    European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during
    World War II

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Aryan
  • a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. those with fair
    coloring

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Nazi
  • National Socialist German Workers' party of
    Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler

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menorah
  • a candelabrum having nine branches, for use on
    the Jewish festival of Hanukkah

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Nuremberg
  • city in Germany, name used to identify anti-
    Semitic laws established in Nazi Germnay.

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rabbi
  • Jewish teacher, official in synagogue

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selection
  • in a concentration camp, choosing who was going
    to die

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Death Camps
  • concentration camps during WWII which were used
    for killing large numbers of Jews and political
    prisoners.guarded compound for detention of
    members of ethnic minority

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Ghetto
  • section of a city occupied primarily by a
    specific ethnic group

25
Red Army
  • Soviet army

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Final Solution
  • Nazi plan to kill all Jews.

27
SS
  • Nazi elite guard, secured concentration camps

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Deportation
  • expulsion of people from their homes to a
    concentration camp

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Swastika
  • German symbol of Third Reich

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Third Reich
  • third government of Germany, Hitlers government

31
ZyklonB
  • chemical used in concentration camp gas chambers

32
Passover
  • a Jewish festival that celebrates the exodus of
    the Jews from Egypt

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Concentration Camp
  • guarded compound for detention of members of
    ethnic minority

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Mein Kampf
  • My Struggle, a book by Hitler describing his
    political beliefs

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Internment Camp
  • camp used to imprison Japanese Americans during
    WWII
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