Holocaust Words: Reading 8 Vocab

Organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people

Pogroms

Symbol of the Nazi party

Swastika

The forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied lands to camps

Deportation

The systematic elimination of a people or nation

Genocide

An innocent person blamed for the problems of others.

Scapegoat

Term used to refer to the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis.

Holocaust

The section of a city where Jews were forced to live.

Ghetto

Racial term used by Nazis to describe the “superior” race.

Aryan

“Night of Broken Glass" or riots against the Jews.

Kristallnacht

SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the Soviet Union.

Einsatzgruppen

Practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race.

Racism

Place where political prisoners were kept.

Concentration Camp

German for “Jews.”

Juden

The Nazi term for the annihilation of the Jews in Europe.

Final Solution

Sewn to clothing to identify the Jews.

Yellow Star

German term that means “pure” or “clean” of the Jews..

judenrein

Discrimination or persecution of Jews.

Anti-Semitism

An attitude toward a person formed without adequate information.

prejudice

Imposed on prisoners by Nazis in order to keep them from liberation.

Death Marches

Abbreviation for Secret State Police.

Gestapo

Roll call area inside concentration and labor camps

Appelplatz

Acronym for the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Nazi

The policy of “mercy” killing the old and handicapped.

Euthanasia

Head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in each ghetto.

judenrat

Nazi term for “supermen” the racial ideal.

Ubermensch

Nazi centers of murder and extermination.

Death camps

The procedure used to determine who would live and die in camps

Selection

The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers at the camps.

Zyklon-B

Hebrew for “flight” name given to those who helped Jews escape.

Bericha

Furnaces where human bodies were burned.

Crematorium