Holocaust Vocab

Cabbala

The ancient Jewish mystical interpretation of the Bible

Fascism

A political system founded in Italy after WWII. It is a way of organizing a society in which a government is ruled by a dictator and controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed ti disagree with the government

Gestapo

Hitler’s “secret state police” that suppressed opposition to his government and organized the concentration camps

Ghetto

An area of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live

Mysticism

To become one with God. To have direct contact with the divine, often accompanied by prayer or meditation

Nazism

Belief that Germans were a superior “Aryan” race and Jew where evil and dangerous.

Revelation

The act of revealing ot making known a religious truth

SS

The “staff guard” were an elite police force that served as Hitler’s bodyguards

Talmud

The central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology.

Zionism

The movement to establish a Jewish national state.

Alliance

An association formed by two or more nations for assistance and protection, also can be formed between families, groups and individuals

Annex

Something (as a wing of a building) added on

Anti Semitism

Hostility toward or hatred of jews as a religious or ethnic group, often accompanied social, economic, political discrimination

Auschwitz

the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, located 37 miles west of Krakow, Poland. The Auschwitz main camp (Auschwitz I) was established in 1940. In 1942, a killing center was established at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II). In 1941, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Auschwitz III) was established as a forced-labor camp. More than 100 subcamps and labor detachments were administratively connected to Auschwitz III.

Collaborators

To cooperate with a enemy force that has taken over one’s country

Deport

To force (a person who is not not a citizen) to leave a country

Ghetto

A part of a city in which members of a minority group live because of social legal, or economic pressure

Government

 A system of control with a established form of public rule

Adolf Hitler

1889–1945) Führer (leader) of the National Socialist (Nazi) movement (1921–1945); Reich

Holocaust

Complete destruction especially caused by fire

Immigrate

To come into a foregin country to live

Inferior

Of little or less importance, value, or merit

Jew

A perosn who is descendant of the ancien Hewbrews or whose religion is Judaism

Liberate

to set free

Murder

the internitnal and unlawful killing of a human being

Presecute

To treat continually in a way that is meant to be cruel and harmful

Policy

a course or action chosed to guide people in making desisions

Rabbi

usee as a term of address for Jewish religious leaders

Synagouge

In Judaism, a hose of worship and learning

Yellow Star

a badge featuring the Star of David  (a symbol of Judaism) used by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust as a method of visibly identifying Jews