The Holocaust

Flashcards about the Holocaust.

Holocaust Denial

The denial of the systematic extermination of Jews during World War II, often involving claims that the event is a hoax or an exaggeration.

Institute for Historical Review

Organization known for promoting Holocaust denial and revisionist historical views.

Ahmadinejad

Former President of Iran who was known for his Holocaust denial statements.

Laws Against Holocaust Denial

Legislation in various countries that criminalizes the denial or gross minimization of the Holocaust.

Enabling Law

A law that allowed Hitler to pass laws without the approval of the German Parliament.

Kristallnacht

Also known as the Night of Broken Glass, a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on November 9–10, 1938.

Einsatzgruppen

Mobile killing squads of Nazi Germany responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II.

Himmler

A leading member of the Nazi Party and a chief architect of the Holocaust.

Heydrich

High-ranking Nazi official and one of the main organizers of the Holocaust, who led the Wannsee Conference.

Wannsee Conference

A meeting in January 1942 where Nazi officials planned the 'Final Solution to the Jewish Question,' which was the systematic genocide of Jews.

The ‘Final Solution’

Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to exterminate the Jewish people.

Nuremberg Laws

Antisemitic laws enacted in Nazi Germany in 1935 that deprived Jews of many rights of citizenship.

Ghettos

Segregated areas in cities where Jews were forced to live under harsh conditions before being deported to concentration and extermination camps.

Selection

The process used by Nazis to sort arriving Jews at concentration camps, determining who would be sent to work and who would be immediately killed.

Resettlement Areas

A deceptive term used by the Nazis to refer to extermination camps where Jews were sent to be murdered.

Star of David

A yellow badge that Jews were forced to wear to identify themselves in Nazi-occupied territories.

Death Camps

Extermination camps built by Nazi Germany during World War II for the purpose of mass murder.

Tactics to get Jews to leave Ghettos

Starvation, Terror, Deception

SS Tactics: Dehumanization

Brainwashing guards with Anti-Semitic propaganda, transporting Jews in cattle cars in terrible conditions, making naked, dirty and half starved people look like animals

Auschwitz

The largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, located in Poland, where over one million Jews and others were murdered.

Zyklon B

The poison gas used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other Nazi extermination camps.

Sonderkommando

Jewish prisoners in extermination camps who were forced to assist with the disposal of bodies in gas chambers and crematoria.

Destruction Through Work

A process where the Nazis literally worked the fat off of jews.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

A revolt in 1943 by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto against Nazi forces, one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.