Holocaust Vocabulary Words – Flashcards
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Anti-Semitism
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Systematic prejudice against Jews.
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Aryan
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The pure, "superior" Germanic (Nordic, Caucasian) race.
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Auschwitz
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Concentration and extermination camp in upper Silesia, Poland. Established as a Concentration camp in 1940, became a extermination camp in 1942 and consisted of three sections, Birkenau, Buna, and Gleiwitz
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Buchenwald
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A concentration camp for slave labor, near Weimar, Germany.
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Concentration Camp
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An internment area for holding "enemies of the Third Reich" - there were several kinds: labor, prison, and death.
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Crematory
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The place that contained the ovens, furnaces, and chimneys where Nazi victims were burned dead or alive.
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Death Camp
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Nazi prison camp where primary function is to murder inmates systematically.
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Death's Head
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Nazi skull symbol worn on SS uniform
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Dystentery
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An intestinal disorder causing blood and mucus in the stool.
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fascist
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A political philosophy that exalts nation and often race about the individual and that stands for centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader.
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Gestapo
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The German internal security police - secret police.
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Ghetto
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A Yiddish word referring to a walled section of a city in which Jews were required to live.
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Gross-Rosen
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A subcamp of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen
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Gypsy
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Nomadic group of people
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Holocaust
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Literally means "burnt offering" - but refers to WWII attempted genocide of the Jewish people.
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Kapo
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Jewish prisoner in charge of a group of other Jewish inmates.
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Kristallnacht
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"Night of the Broken Glass"
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Red Army
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Slang term for the Russian Army
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Selection
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Euphemism for the process of choosing victims for the gas chambers in the Nazi camps by separating them from those considered fit to work
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SS
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Originally Hitler's elite guard. The group in charge of the Death Camps/special police force in the Nazi army.
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Kabbalah
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The study of Jewish mysticism
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hasidic law
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A member of a Jewish mystic movement founded in the 18th century in eastern Europe by Baal Shem Tov that reacted against Talmudic learning and maintained that God's presence was in all of one's surroundings and that one should serve God in one's every deed and word.
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Kaddish
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Jewish prayer for the dead
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Rabbi
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A religious teacher and person authorized to make decision on issues of Jewish law. Performs many of the same function as the Protestant minister.
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Sodom
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Wicked Biblical city that suffers God's wrath.
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Synagogue
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The most widely accepted term for a Jewish house of worship.
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Talmud
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The most significant collection of Jewish oral tradition interpreting the Torah.
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Torah
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The entire body of Jewish teachings. The Old Testament to Protestants.
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Yom Kippur
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A day set aside for atonement (forgiveness), depriving oneself of pleasures to repent for the sins of the previous year.
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Zohar
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The primary written work in the mystical tradition of the Kabalah.
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Atonement
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Forgiveness
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Fast
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To go without food.
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Fortnight
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two weeks.
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Adolf Hitler
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Known as "The Furer"
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Dr. Josef Mengele
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SS physician at Auschwitz, notorious for pseudo-medical experiments (especially on twins and Gypsies).
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Adolf Eichmann
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Nazi who was instrumental in implementing the "Final Solution."
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Henrich Himmler
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Head of the SS
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Rudolf Franz Hoss
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Nazi in charge of Auschwitz, who implemented the usage of Zyklon B gas.
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Joseph Goebbels
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Head of Nazi Propaganda
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Herman Goring
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Nazi, second-in-command to only the Fuhrer.
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Reinhard Heydrich
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Nazi leader, known as "The Hangman"
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Nazis
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National Socialist German Worker's Party who's emblem is the swastika.
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Elie Wisel
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Author of Night
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Hasidic Jew
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A branch of Orthodox Judaism that maintains a rigid lifestyle, separate from the non-Jewish world.
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Sonder Kommando
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A prisoner slave labor group assigned to work in the killing area.
