Holocaust Vocabulary

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Holocaust Vocabulary
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ghetto

• describes the area/city that Jews were forced to
  live after they were forced to leave their homes.
  It was not uncommon for 10-16 people to live in
  a small apartment type area Warsaw was one of
  the most famous.

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Typical room in a ghetto
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deportation

• when the Jews were forced out of their homes or
  out of the ghetto after the Nazis came in and
  took over their city. Many times, they were sent
  to concentration camps.

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Kristallnacht

• a German word that means the night of broken
  glass. On this night on November 9-10, 1938,
  there was an organized riot or pogrom planned to
  destroy all Jewish shops, synagogues, and burn
  books and valuables connected with the Jews. It
  was called the night of broken glass because of
  all the windows that were shattered filled the
  streets. Many note this as the beginning of the
  Holocaust.

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Juden

• the German word for Jews. It was many times
  spray painted on walls and signs were put up
  saying No Juden Allowed.

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Aryan

• describes the race that Hitler and Nazi Party
  wanted to create. His idea was that the Aryan
  race would be superior. Typically people who
  were considered Aryan were blond haired, blue
  eyed Germans. There is no scientific or
  biological validity or truth in his theory or
  belief.

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yellow star

• a symbol that the Jews had to wear that told
  everyone that they were Jewish. It was the
  yellow Star of David sewn onto their clothing.

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Judenrein

• This is a German term that means free of Jews
  or clean of Jews. Hitler wanted to make the
  world judenrein. He wanted all Jews gone.

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Holocaust

• word comes from the Greek word meaning to
  completely burn. Although holocaust can be used
  in many ways, it is frequently used to describe
  the time during WWII when the Jews were massively
  killed by Hitler and the Nazi party.

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genocide

• To destroy or attempt to eliminate a racial,
  political, or social group

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Nazi

• A word that stands for National Socialist German
  Workers Party. It was the group of people who
  controlled the government and people of Germany
  during the reign of Adolf Hitler.

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The Final Solution

• A phrase that the Nazis used to refer to the
  annihilation of the Jews in Europe. This term
  sounded better than the alternative, so many
  times, Hitler and his men used this phrase to
  describe the horrible acts he had planned

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Anti- Semitism

• This word is used to describe peoples actions or
  words or thoughts that are negative towards Jews.
  People who are anti- Semitic have a strong hate
  for Jews. It is a form of prejudice.

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Here is an image that shows anti-Semitism.
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prejudice

• This is an unreasonable dislike for a group of
  people or things over another. If you are
  prejudice against something, you are usually not
  being fair. People were prejudice against Jews
  and others during the Holocaust.

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The Ku Klux Klan is a group that is usually
associated with prejudice. They do not like
people who are not part of their race.
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scapegoat

• When a person is blamed for others wrong doing
  usually the person or group of people are treated
  unfairly and deal with people being angry at them
  for something they did not do or say.

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concentration camps

• A prison in which large numbers of people are
  kept in very bad conditions, usually during a
  war. There were many concentration camps during
  WWII. Most of them had Jews in them and usually
  they were worked and given little to no food,
  water and other basic necessities.

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liberation

• If someone is liberated, you are helping them
  escape from something, overcoming something to
  lead to a better life. People who were in the
  camps were praying or hoping for liberation.

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People were happy when they were liberated from
the camps during the Holocaust.
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death camps

• A death camp is much like a concentration camp
  except that people were put in these death camps
  specifically to be killed. There were mass forms
  of extermination (killing) that happened in these
  camps like gassing, shooting and burning people
  to death.

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resistance

• Group of people who attack or fight back against
  the people who have attacked you. There were
  Jewish resistance groups that formed to fight
  back against the Nazis.

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This would be the type of poster would be
created by someone who was part of the resistance
or someone who was fighting against anti-Semitism.
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tolerance

• It is the idea that people can say or do as they
  like, even if you dont agree with them or
  approve of it. If people were more tolerant of
  others, the world may not have the hate,
  discrimination and prejudice that it does.

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