Transcript Holocaust Vocabulary - Westerville City Schools

Holocaust Vocabulary
Blitzkrieg
• A swift, sudden military
offensive, usually by
combined air and mobile
land forces. Hitler’s fighting
strategy.
Zionism
• Jewish movement to
reestablish a Jewish
homeland in Palestine
Kapo
• prisoner given authority
over other prisoners
Anti-Semitism
• attitude that creates
discrimination against Jews
Buchenwald
• concentration camp in
central Germany
Death Marches
• forced marches of
concentration camp
prisoners, carried out to
evacuate camps before the
American or Russian Armies
arrived to liberate prisoners.
synagogue
• Jewish house of worship
Pogrom
• an organized, often officially
encouraged massacre or
persecution of a minority group,
especially one conducted against
Jews.
Auschwitz
• town in Poland, site of major
death camp during the Third
Reich
Genocide
• the systematic and planned
extermination of an entire
national, racial, political, or
ethnic group.
Hanukkah
• Jewish festival characterized
chiefly by the lighting of the
menorah on each night of
the festival.
Gestapo
• German secret police
Kristallnacht
• night of broken glass,
Germans riot destroying
Jewish homes and businesses
Star of David
• six point star, symbol of
Judaism
Holocaust
• a sacrifice completely
consumed by fire; burnt
offering, the systematic mass
slaughter of European Jews
in Nazi concentration camps
during World War II
Aryan
• a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp.
those with fair coloring
Nazi
• National Socialist German
Workers' party of Germany,
which in 1933, under Adolf
Hitler
menorah
• a candelabrum having nine
branches, for use on the
Jewish festival of Hanukkah
Nuremberg
• city in Germany, name used
to identify anti- Semitic laws
established in Nazi
Germnay.
rabbi
• Jewish teacher, official in
synagogue
selection
• in a concentration camp,
choosing who was going to
die
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
Ghetto
• section of a city occupied
primarily by a specific
ethnic group
Red Army
• Soviet army
Final Solution
• Nazi plan to kill all Jews.
SS
• Nazi elite guard, secured
concentration camps
Deportation
• expulsion of people from
their homes to a
concentration camp
Swastika
• German symbol of Third
Reich
Third Reich
• third government of
Germany, Hitler’s
government
Zyklon+B
• chemical used in
concentration camp gas
chambers
Passover
• a Jewish festival that
celebrates the exodus of the
Jews from Egypt
Concentration Camp
• guarded compound for
detention of members of
ethnic minority
Mein Kampf
• My Struggle, a book by
Hitler describing his
political beliefs
Internment Camp
• camp used to imprison
Japanese Americans during
WWII