Vocab 1 Holocaust Flashcards
Holocaust
the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jewish people by the Nazi German regime
Anti-semitism
dislike or hatred of Jewish people
Concentration Camp
camps that imprisoned Jewish people, and others, by the Nazis throughout Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe
Gestapo
the secret state police of the German Army
Ghetto
a confined area of a city in which members of a minority group are compelled to live because of social, legal, or economic pressure
Kaddish
a Jewish prayer for the dead
Kapo
a prisoner within the camp who is elevated to oversee other prisoners
Shoah
the Hebrew word for Holocaust
SS
the German army’s elite guard, organized to serve as Hitler’s personal protectors and to administer the concentration camps
Auschwitz
a concentration camp located in Poland
Crematory
an establishment containing a furnace for reducing dead bodies to ashes by burning
Edict
an order, command
Barrack
a structure resembling a shed or barn that provides temporary housing
Kommando
a German word for detachment, in Night a detachment of concentration camp prisoners at forced labor
Distribute
to give out or deliver to a group
Liberate
to set free
Evacuation
the act or process of evacuating, leaving, or vacating
Simile
a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Metaphor
a comparison between two things without using like or as
Imagery
when figurative language creates a mental image that uses any of the five senses
