Holocaust Flashcards
Policy of “mercy killing” the elderly and handicapped
Euthanasia
The section of a city in which the Jews were forced to live
Ghetto
Roll call area inside concentration, labor, and death camps
Appelplatz
An innocent person blamed for the problems of another
Scapegoat
The systematic elimination of a people or nation
Genocide
Discrimination or persecution of Jews
Anti-Semitism
German for Jews
Juden
Steps of a genocide
- Denial of justice
- Persecution
- Isolation
- Dehumanization
- Violence
- Mass Execution
- Denial
Furnaces where human bodies were burned
Crematorium
SS killing units that sought out and murdered Jews in the Soviet Union
Einsatzgruppen
Secret police
Gestapo
Head of Jewish council established by Nazis in each ghetto
Judenrat
The nazi considered this the “superior race”
Aryan
What does the word holocaust mean
Burnt hole
The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz
Zyklon-B
Items piled at train station in Schindler’s list
Glasses, photos, clothes, shoes, teeth, luggage
What splash of color does Schindler see
Red
What do the women do to their faces and why? Schindlers list
Rub blood from their fingers onto it to make them look healthy
What does Schindler give for the women to be back in his custody
Diamonds, jewels
What do the workers make in Poland
Pots and pans, ammunition shells
What do the workers make to show their gratitude for Schindler
A ring made out of a mans filling
Purple triangle badge
Jehovah witness
Pink triangle badge
Homosexual
Brown triangle badge
Gypsies
Green triangle badge
Criminals
Red triangle badge
Political prisoners
Ways the jews were persecuted
Destroying business, homes, and synagogues
Took people in for “questioning”
Property taken by gov
Jews began wearing yellow stars
Jews had to turn in bicycles
Jews forbidden from driving, taking the train, or walking in front of a German
Ways the jews were dehumanized
Nazi loaded jews on trains like cattle
Called jews by number not name
Placed in camps without regard to family
Nazis were told to treat jews like animals
Harsh work, little sleep, little food, little clothing
Ways the jews were executed
Gassed, electrocuting, mass cremation, firing squad, hanging, buried alive
Auschwitz
Poland concentration camp
Where dr. Mengele made the ultimate human labratory, 7,000+ experimented on
Ravensbruck
All female German concentration camp
Karl Koch
Butcher of buchenwald
Dr. Joseph Mengele
“The Angel of Death”, Auschwitz, multiple births, perfect aryan specimen, tested on twins to see if one was hurt the other would feel it, Roma gypsies to prove their blood was different, TB testing to help German soldiers
Simon Wiesenthal
Nazi hunter brought many back for trial
Nuremburg
1945-1946, international tribunal, 4 crimes, 1 conspiracy to wage aggressive war 2 waging aggressive war(jail) 3 war crimes 4 crimes against humanity
Dachau
Political concentration camp
Codename for extermination of the Jews
Final solution
