Holocaust Words: Reading 8 Vocab

Organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people

Pogroms

Symbol of the Nazi party

Swastika

The forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied lands to camps

Deportation

The systematic elimination of a people or nation

Genocide

An innocent person blamed for the problems of others.

Scapegoat

Term used to refer to the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis.

Holocaust

The section of a city where Jews were forced to live.

Ghetto

Racial term used by Nazis to describe the “superior” race.

Aryan

“Night of Broken Glass" or riots against the Jews.

Kristallnacht

SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the Soviet Union.

Einsatzgruppen

Practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race.

Racism

Place where political prisoners were kept.

Concentration Camp

**German for “Jews.”** 

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**Juden**

**The Nazi term for the annihilation of the Jews in Europe.** 

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**Final Solution**

**Sewn to clothing to identify the Jews.**

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**Yellow Star**

**German term that means “pure” or “clean” of the Jews..**

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 **judenrein**

**Discrimination or persecution of Jews.** 

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**Anti-Semitism**

**An attitude toward a person formed without adequate information.**

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**prejudice**

**Imposed on prisoners by Nazis in order to keep them from liberation.** 

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**Death Marches**

**Abbreviation for Secret State Police.**

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**Gestapo**

**Roll call area inside concentration and labor camps**

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**Appelplatz**

**Acronym for the National Socialist German Workers Party.** 

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**Nazi**

**The policy of “mercy” killing the old and handicapped.**

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**Euthanasia**

**Head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in each ghetto.**

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**judenrat**

 **Nazi term for “supermen” the racial ideal.**

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**Ubermensch**

**Nazi centers of murder and extermination.** 

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**Death camps**

 **The procedure used to determine who would live and die in camps**

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**Selection**

**The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers at the camps.**

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**Zyklon-B**

 **Hebrew for “flight” name given to those who helped Jews escape.** 

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**Bericha**

**Furnaces where human bodies were burned.**

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**Crematorium**