Holocaust Terms

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

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

means anti-Jewish

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

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

the planned killing of a race of people

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...

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

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

number of Jews killed in the Holocaust