Holocaust Vocab

Antisemitism -

prejudice against or the hatred of Jews.

Appeasement –

Policy of giving into the demand of an aggressive nation to avoid conflict.

Auschwitz –

The deadliest nazi concentration camp.

Bystander –

Someone who observes an event without taking part in it is.

Einsatzgruppen –

Nazi mobile killing units who killed any opponents to the Third Reich.

Evian Conference -

an international meeting held from July 6 to July 15, 1938, in Evian, France, involving 32 nations which had the purpose of addressing the growing Jewish Refugee Crisis.

Fascism -

an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

Final Solution -

Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews this resulted in the mass murdering of 6 million Jews.

Ghetto -

Districts of towns and cities in German-occupied eastern Europe in which Jews were forced to live segregated

Holocaust -

Systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.

Kristallnacht –

The “Night of Broken Glass”, happened on November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property.

Nuremburg Laws -

Were antisemitic and racist laws introduced in Nazi Germany which deprived jews of basic rights.