Holocaust Vocabulary

Question 0

Aryan Race

Answer 0

Elite human beings- blonde, blue eyed, German

Question 1

Anti-Semitism

Answer 1

Anti-Jewish

Question 2

Auschwitz

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Largest Concentration Camp. Located in Poland.

Question 3

Concentration Camps

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Places that kept the “undesirables”- become known as forced labor camps.

Question 4

Death Camps

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Also called extermination camps- purpose was to kill as many undesirables as possible.

Question 5

Elie Wiesel

Answer 5

Author of Night, Auschwitz survivor.

Question 6

Final Solution

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Hitler’s plan to eliminate all Jews from Europe.

Question 7

Genocide

Answer 7

Systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

Question 8

Germany

Answer 8

Started WWII

Question 9

Gestapo

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Hitler’s secret police- eliminated opposition to Nazism.

Question 10

Ghettos

Answer 10

Enclosed neighbourhoods where Germans separated Jews from the rest of society.

Question 11

Hitler

Answer 11

Led the Nazi Party in Germany from 1933-1945.

Question 12

Holocaust

Answer 12

Destruction by fire. After WWII- refers to mass murder of Jewish people.

Question 13

Nazi Party

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Political party during WWII- believed in nationalism, national expansion, and state control of economy.

Question 14

Nuremberg Laws

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Racial laws that Hitler created in 1935- stripped Jews of their political and civil rights.

Question 15

Poland

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Invaded by Europe on September 1st, 1939. Start of the war.

Question 16

Prejudice

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Prejudgment about someone or something, judging someone or something without any deeper understanding or knowledge.

Question 17

Propaganda

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An organised spreading of ideas- getting people emotionally involved in your side of the issue.

Question 18

Racism

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Discrimination based on race.

Question 19

Scapegoat

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One that bears the blame for others.

The object of irrational hostility.

Question 20

SS

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Hitler’s elite guards who ran the concentration camps.

Question 21

Swastika

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Represented the Nazi Party. Before Hitler, represented “Good Fortune”.

Question 22

Undesirables

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People Hitler wanted to eliminate- Jews, Gypsies, physically and mentally handicapped, homosexuals.

Question 23

World War II

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1939-1945. Allies (Great Britain, U.S., Russia) vs. Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan).