Holocaust Vocab Flashcards
Partisans
Patriotic civilians who banned together to fight Nazi rule, usually operating in the forests in Russia, Poland, and Lithuania
Stereotypes
A generalized belief about a group of people
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice against the Jewish people
Totalitarianism
A government or doctrine in which one political party or group maintain complete control an makes all others illegal
Holocaust
Term used to describe the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people of Eastern Europe by the Nazi regime; by the the end of World War II, approximately 6,000,000 Jewish men, women, and children had been killed
Propaganda
Information, ideas or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement , institution, and nation
Zionism
The movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Israel
Jew (Jewish)
A member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel
Third Reich
Official name of the Nazi regime; ruled from 1933 to 1945 under command of Adolf Hilter
Religious Gentiles
Non-Jews who helped save Jewish lives
Ghetto
An area of a city to which the Jews were restricted and from which they were forbidden to leave
Dehumanization
Removing or deprivation of human qualities, rights or understanding
Pogrom
Organized acts of discrimination, segregation, persecution, and domination on the basis of race
Persecute
To treat cruelly or harshly because of political, religious or other differences
Genocide
The systematic killing of a nation or race of people
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Located in Poland, largest death camp built by the Nazis; over 2,000,000 people died here by means of starvation, disease, and gassing; Birkenau is often referred to as Auschwitz II
Kristallnacht
Night of Broken Glass, the organized pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938
“Final Solution”
Nazi code word for the physical extermination of European Jews
Nuremberg Laws
Issued in 1935, laws which were designed to exclude the Jews from Germany both socially and politically
SS/Gestapo
Elite guard, under the command of Heinrich Himmler, responsible for the administration of the concentration camps and for carrying out the “Final Solution”
