Year 9 Holocaust Glossary

Question 1

ANTI-SEMITISM

Answer 1

Hostility/discrimination against Jews as a cultural/racial/religious/ethnic group

Question 2

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKINAU

Answer 2

Death camp in Poland

Question 3

AYRAN RACE

Answer 3

Mythical race of people believed to be superior to other races

Question 4

CHURBAN

Answer 4

Hebrew word for the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 ACE

Question 5

CONCENTRATION CAMP

Answer 5

A prison where people were held in harsh conditions often dying as a result of overwork and punishment

Question 6

DEATH CAMP

Answer 6

A killing centre where people were either worked to death or gassed

Question 7

EINSATZGRUPPEN

Answer 7

Special units of police, SS, army and local people who did mass killings of Jews, Roma, communists and Soviet people

Question 8

FINAL SOLUTION

Answer 8

Nazi policy to exterminate the Jewish people and other races/groups

Question 9

GENOCIDE

Answer 9

Destruction of a race of people

Question 10

GHETTO

Answer 10

Areas in towns/cities were Jews were forced to live separately from others

Question 11

HOLOCAUST

Answer 11

Ancient Greek word and means ‘burnt sacrifice’

Question 12

KRISTALLNACHT

Answer 12

‘Night of the Broken Glass’ 1938

Question 13

NUREMBURG TRIALS

Answer 13

Series of war crime trials at the city of Nuremburg

Question 14

PARTISAN

Answer 14

Member of an armed group formed to fight secretly against an occupying force.

Question 15

PERSECUTION

Answer 15

Hostility/discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or political beliefs

Question 16

ROMA AND SINTI

Answer 16

Largest minority groups living in Europe for 1000 years

Question 17

SHOAH

Answer 17

Ancient Hebrew word for catastrophe

Question 18

WARSAW

Answer 18

Polish town with a very large Jewish community

Question 19

YIDDISH

Answer 19

A form of German spoken by Jewish people in Eastern Europe