Holocaust

Question 1

Anti-Semitism

Answer 1

Opposition to and discrimination against Jews

Question 2

Discrimination

Answer 2

the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Question 3

Nazi Party

Answer 3

Founded in Germany on January 5, 1919. It was characterized by a centralist and authoritarian structure. Its platform was based on militaristic, racial, Anti-Semitic and nationalistic policies. Nazi Party membership and political power grew dramatically in the 1930s, partly based on political propaganda, mass rallies and demonstrations.

Question 4

Concentration Camp

Answer 4

prisons used without regard to accepted norms of arrest and detention. They were an essential part of Nazi systematic oppression. Death, disease, starvation, crowded and unsanitary conditions, and torture were a daily part of concentration camps.

Question 5

Auschwitz

Answer 5

A complex consisting of concentration, extermination, and labor camps.

Question 6

Genocide

Answer 6

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural, or religious group

Question 7

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 7

Laws by Hitler defining “Jew” and systematizing and regulating discrimination and persecution. Deprived all Jews of their civil rights.

Question 8

Ghetto

Answer 8

established in the poor sections of a city, where most of the Jews from the city and surrounding areas were subsequently forced to reside. Characterized by overcrowding, malnutrition, and heavy labor.

Question 9

Adolf Hitler

Answer 9

Nazi party leader, 1919-1945

Question 10

Holocaust

Answer 10

Derived from the Greek holokauston which meant a sacrifice totally burned by fire. Today, the term refers to the systematic planned extermination of about six million European Jews and millions of others by the Nazis between 1933-1945.