Holocaust Terms

Sections of towns and cities in which Jews were forced to live.

Concentration camps where hard physical work was performed in order to survive.

This was the primary method of murder in death camps. Buildings or parts of buildings which were sealed off and air tight so that large numbers of peo...

means anti-Jewish

biased ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause (the Nazi party used posters, radio, leaflets, etc.)

A mass slaughter of millions of Jews and other civilians in death camps carried out by Nazi Germany (WWII)

the planned killing of a race of people

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or wo...

number of Jews killed in the Holocaust

an unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings,...