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DictionaryHolocaust Terms

Aktion

A Nazi operation involving seeking

out, assembling, shooting, deporting to

labor or death camps that took place in

Jewish villages or ghettos.

Anielewicz, Mordechai

A Jewish resistance leader in the Warsaw

Ghetto uprising.

Antisemitism

Dislike or hatred against the Jews

AppellThe roll call of prisoners that could take hours to do.

Canada

The name given to the storage buildings by

the prisoners who worked in them.

Concentration Camp

Camps in which Jews were imprisoned by

the Nazis.

Crematorium

Ovens in the concentration camps where

the Jews were taken to be killed by fire or

gas.

Death Camp

A camp with the sole purpose to kill.

Deportation

Being forced by law out of the land they

currently occupied.

Final Solution

Term used by the Nazis meaning to

annihilate all the Jews.

Fuhrer

German word for “leader” adopted by

Adolf Hitler himself.

Gas Chamber

A sealed room where many Jews were

killed at once by inhaling gas.

Gestapo

The secret state police of the German Army

Hitler, Adolf

Leader of the National Socialist German

Workers' Party.

Holocaust

Term made in the 1950’s that describes the

murder and torture of over 6 million Jews

and about 3 million other “undesirables”.

Judenrein

A term used to describe an area which has

been "cleansed" or "purified" of all Jews by

deportation or murder.

Jews

A person that follows the Jewish community

or culture.

Mein Kampf

Autobiography by Hitler himself that states

his ambitions, ideas, and plans for future

Germany.

Nazi

Name for members of the NSDAP, National

Socialist Democratic Workers Party, who

believed in the idea of Aryan supremacy.

Pogrom

An organized, state-sponsored attack.

SA

Storm troopers, the terrorist branch of the

Nazi army, and the ones who helped Hitler

get to his full power.

Scrip

Paper currency or tokens used as evidence

that the bearer was entitled to receive

something in return.

Swastika

The official symbol of the Nazis.

Torah

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible.

Zyklon B

Gas used to kill the Jews in the gas

chambers.