WWII Vocab

Question 1

Define:

Anti-Semitism

Answer 1

Discrimination or persecution of Jews.

Question 2

Define:

Appelplatz

Answer 2

Roll call area inside concentration, labor, and death camps.

Question 3

Define:

Aryan

Answer 3

Racial term used by Nazis to describe a “race” they believed to be superior. It has no biological validity.

Question 4

Define:

Bericha

Answer 4

Hebrew for “flight”; name given to those who aided Jews in their escape to Palestine after the Holocaust.

Question 5

Define:

Concentration Camp

Answer 5

Place where political prisoners were kept.

Question 6

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Crematorium

Answer 6

Furnaces where human bodies were burned.

Question 7

Define:

Deportation

Answer 7

The forced removal of Jews in Nazi- occupied lands to concentration camps.

Question 8

Define:

Death Camps

Answer 8

Nazi centers of murder and extermination.

Question 9

Define:

Death Marches

Answer 9

The marches imposed upon prisoners by the Nazis in order to keep them from liberation by the Allied forces.

Question 10

Define:

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 10

SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the Soviet Union.

Question 11

Define:

Euthanasia

Answer 11

The policy of “mercy killing” the old and handicapped.

Question 12

Define:

Final Solution

Answer 12

The Nazi term for the annihilation of the Jews in Europe.

Question 13

Define:

Genocide

Answer 13

The systematic elimination of a people or nation.

Question 14

Define:

Gestapo

Answer 14

Abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police).

Question 15

Define:

Ghetto

Answer 15

The section of a city where Jews were forced to live.

Question 16

Define:

Holocaust

Answer 16

Term used to refer to the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Also included extermination of Gypsies and Poles.

Question 17

Define:

Juden

Answer 17

German for “Jews.”

Question 18

Define:

Judenrat

Answer 18

Head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in each Jewish ghetto.

Question 19

Define:

Judenrein

Answer 19

German term that means “pure” or “clean” of Jews.

Question 20

Define:

Kristalinacht

Answer 20

Night of the Broken Glass. Nazi- organized riot against the Jews on Nov. 9-10, 1938.

Question 21

Define:

Nazi

Answer 21

Acronym for the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Question 22

Define:

Pogroms

Answer 22

Organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people.

Question 23

Define:

Prejudice

Answer 23

An attitude toward a person or group of people formed without adequate information.

Question 24

Define:

Racism

Answer 24

Practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race.

Question 25

Define:

Scapegoat

Answer 25

An innocent person blamed for the problems of another.

Question 26

Define:

Selection

Answer 26

The procedure used to determine who would live and who would die in death and labor camps. Usually carried out by doctors.

Question 27

Define:

Swastika

Answer 27

Symbol of the Nazi party; originally an ancient religious symbol.

Question 28

Define:

Clebermenschen

Answer 28

Nazi term for supermen,” the racial ideal.

Question 29

Define:

Yellow Star

Answer 29

Yellow, cloth Star of David sewn to cloth¬ing to identify Jews.

Question 30

Define:

Zyklon-B

Answer 30

The gas used to kill Jews in the gas cham¬bers at the death camps.