Holocaust Vocab

Question 1

Antisemitism

Answer 1

hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

Question 2

Bystander

Answer 2

a person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part.

Question 3

Crematoria

Answer 3

a machine in which bodies are burned down to the bones, eliminating all soft tissue.

Question 4

Concentration Camps

Answer 4

a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

Question 5

Death Camps

Answer 5

a prison camp, especially one for political prisoners or prisoners of war, in which many die from poor conditions and treatment or from mass execution.

Question 6

Dehumanization

Answer 6

the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.

Question 7

Deportation

Answer 7

the action of deporting a foreigner from a country.

Question 8

Discrimination

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Euphemism

Answer 9

a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

Question 10

Final Solution

Answer 10

the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews.

Question 11

Fuehrer

Answer 11

a ruthless, tyrannical leader.

Question 12

Genocide

Answer 12

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Question 13

Liberation

Answer 13

freedom from limits on thought or behavior.

Question 14

Nazi

Answer 14

a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

Question 15

Persecution

Answer 15

persistent annoyance or harassment.

Question 16

Refugee

Answer 16

a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Question 17

Star of David

Answer 17

a six-pointed figure consisting of two interlaced equilateral triangles, used as a Jewish and Israeli symbol.

Question 18

Swastika

Answer 18

an ancient symbol in the form of an equal-armed cross with each arm continued at a right angle, used (in clockwise form) as the emblem of the German Nazi Party.

Question 19

Visa

Answer 19

an endorsement of a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leaver or star for a specified period of time in a country

Question 20

Wannsee Conference

Answer 20

a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942