Holocaust Flashcards
Define : Ghetto
Enclosed part of a town where Jews were forced to live
Define : Anti-Semitism
Hatred of and discrimination against Jewish people
Define : Einsatzgruppen
Mobile killing squad that rounded up Jews and shot them during WW2
Define : Nuremburg
Place where laws were passed in 1935 that said Jewish people could not marry non-Jews or be German citizens
Define : Synagogue
Jewish temple
Define : Auschwitz-Birkenau
Location of the most notorious Nazi death camp, where over 1M Jewish people are thought to have died.
Define : Amidah
Hebrew term which means resistance: how Jewish people resisted the Holocaust
Define : Kristallnacht
Night of Broken Glass in Nov 1938, when groups of Nazis destroyed Jewish property. At least 200 Jews were killed.
Define : Boycott
Refusing to take part in something as a punishment or protest: the Nazis ordered a boycott of Jewish shops in 1933
Define : SS
Nazi organisation that ran the death camps
Who was…? : Reinhard Heydrich
Nazi who ordered and organised the Holocaust
Who was…? : Heinrich Himmler
Nazi Head of the SS who were in charge of the death camps
Who was…? : Yehuda Bauer
Israeli historian who stresses Jewish resistance to the Holocaust
What happened in…? : (Apr. 1st) 1933
One-Day Boycott of Jewish shops in Germany
What happened in…? : 1935
Nuremburg Laws discriminate against Jews
