holocaust vocab

Question 1

historical account written from personal documents

Answer 1

memoir

Question 2

genocide

Answer 2

deliberate killing of a large number of people

Question 3

birkenau

Answer 3

auschwitx II, large scale killing apparatus

Question 4

nazi extermination camp (auschwitz)

Answer 4

buchenwald

Question 5

plant that produced rubber and gasoline, used forced labor

Answer 5

buna

Question 6

military organization responsible for genocidal murder

Answer 6

SS (schutzstaffel)

Question 7

prisoner in a nazi camp asssigned by the SS to supervise forced labor

Answer 7

kapo

Question 8

prayer jews recite in the memory of a loved one

Answer 8

kaddish

Question 9

center of jewish worship in ancient times

Answer 9

temple

Question 10

study of learning and colleciton of rabbi teachings

Answer 10

talmud

Question 11

holiday celebrated for 8 days, recalls exodus of jewish people from egypt

Answer 11

passover

Question 12

jewish new year, 10 day period of repenting nad divine judgement, ends with yom kippur

Answer 12

rosh hashanah

Question 13

jewish day of atonement, fast day dedicated to prayer

Answer 13

yom kippur

Question 14

red army

Answer 14

army and air force of russian soviet republic