Ghetto
separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live
Einsatzgruppen
Nazi operations groups that killed innocent Jews with their infamous "death squads" - carried out the Holocaust by Bullets
SS (Schutzstaffel): Secret Service
an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. They also oversaw the concentration camps.
Commandant
the officer in charge of a particular military group or death camp/concentration camp
Persecution
Hostility and ill-treatment especially because of race or pollical or religious beliefs.
Genocide
The deliberate killing of a large group of people especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
Work written by Hitler while in prison in 1923; it blames the Jews for Germany's problems.
Concentration camp
A place to House Jews until they could be taken to death camps or labor camps.
Action of Liquidation
The roundup of Jews for execution.
Gentile
A non-Jewish person
xenophobia (noun)
A fears or hatred foreign people strange customs
feeble-minded
(of a person) unable to make intelligent decisions or judgments.
Final Solution
Nazi program of systematically killing the entire Jewish population in Europe
immigrant
a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
Aryan
In Nazi terminology the Master Race of blond blue eyed people.
Gas Van
Killing by using exhaust fumes from large trucks/vans piped gas vans were later produced and used as the primary killing method at the death camp Chelmno.
Righteous among the Nation
Non-Jews honored in Israel for helping save Jews at risk to their own lives and without pay or compensation.
Propaganda
Information especially of a biased or misleading nature used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Advertisements and have bi
Death camp
A prison camp for the purpose of killing Jews and other unwanted groups.
Zyklon B
Gas (insecticide) used to kill Jews in the gas chamber after replacing carbon monoxide as the primary killing tactic
Holocaust
Noun - the mass murder of European Jews under the German Nazi regime during 1941 - 1945
Consulate
Similar to embassies these are large diplomatic buildings in foreign countries that off diplomatic representation and visas
Crematorium
a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes
Gestapo
The German Secret police. They also ran the concentration and death camps.
Nazi
A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews
Fürher
Leader/dictator with unlimited random power; dictator German Word
Star of David
A six-pointed star used as a Jewish and Israeli symbol.