Holocaust Terms

Question 1

The Holocaust

Answer 1

A systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime (government- and authoritarian one) Its allies and collaborators.

Question 2

Holocaust

Answer 2

A Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire”

Question 3

Jews

Answer 3

Persons identifying themselves with the Jewish community or as followers of the Jewish religion or culture.

Question 4

Nazi

Answer 4

Name for members of the NSDAP, National Socialist Democratic Workers Party, who believed in the idea of an aryan race (supremacy).

Question 5

Antisemitism

Answer 5

Prejudices against Jewish people or discrimination against them.

Question 6

Allies

Answer 6

Twenty-nation led by Britain, The United States, and the Soviet Union.

Question 7

Aryan

Answer 7

Originally a term fro people who spoke the languages of Europe and India. Twisted by the Nazis, who viewed those of Germanic background as the best examples of “superior”

Question 8

Auschwitz- Birkenau

Answer 8

Largest Nazi camp, located 37 miles west of cracow, pola