Transcript Holocaust Vocabulary

Holocaust Vocabulary
Anti-Semitism
• Discrimination against or prejudice or
hostility toward Jews.
Concentration Camp
• A guarded compound for the detention or
imprisonment of aliens, ethnic minorities
and political opponents.
Death Camp
• Concentration camp in which the inmates
are unlikely to survive or they have been
sent to be executed.
Genocide
• The deliberate and systematic
extermination of a national, racial, political
or cultural group.
Gestapo
• German state secret police during the Nazi
regime. Know for brutal methods and
operations.
holocaust
• A great or complete devastation or
destruction.
Holocaust
• The systematic mass slaughter of
European Jews in Nazi concentration
camps during World War II.
Nazi
• Member of the National Socialist German
Workers party of Germany. Seized political
control of Germany.
Persecution
• To pursue with harassing or oppressive
treatment because of religion, race or
beliefs.
Propaganda
• Information, ideas or rumors deliberately
spread widely to help or harm a person,
group, movement or institution.
SS (Schutzstaffel)
• An elite military unit of the Nazi party that
served as Hitler’s body guards and as a
special police force.
Star of David
• A hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.