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Holocaust. –noun 1. a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. 2. a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering. 3. ( usually initial capital letter ) the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during world War II. . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Holocaust• –noun • 1. a great or complete devastation or
destruction, especially by fire. • 2. a sacrifice completely consumed by
fire; burnt offering. • 3. ( usually initial capital letter ) the
systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during world War II.
SCAPEGOAT
•noun - a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their
place.
Euphemism1. the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be
offensive, harsh, or blunt.
2. the expression so substituted: “To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.”
Nazi EUPHEMISMS• “liquidate” = annihilate • “transport” = deportation• “The Jewish Question”• “The Final Solution”
Propaganda1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately
spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
Desensitize to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in
feeling through
overexposure (to violence)
Kabbalahbook of Jewish
mystical tradition based on an
esoteric interpretation
of The Old
Testament
Kabbalist 1. an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric
matters 2. a student of the Jewish Kabbalah
Synagogue a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
2. an assembly or congregation of Jews for the purpose of religious worship.
Talmud
the collection of Jewish law and tradition
Rosh HashanahThe Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish
New Year
Passovera Jewish festival that commemorates
the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual dinner
The Festival of Freedom
Zionisma worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the
state of Israel.
Yellow StarStar of David
-labeling of the Jews by use of the
Jewish badge
Ghetto a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live
Warsaw Ghetto
Cattle Cars
S.S.(Schutzstaffel)
an elite military unit of the Nazi
party that served as Hitler's
bodyguard and as a special police force.
S.S.
Crematorium - furnace for cremating.
Auschwitz
Kaddish – prayer for the dead
Kommando - unit or command - the basic unit of organization of slave
labourers in Nazi concentration camps.
Sonder-Kommandoguarding newly-arrived inmates, escorting them to gas chambers,
searching the bodies & burning them.
Kapoa prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.
Gypsy
Dr. Mengeleone of the SS
physicians who supervised the
selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who
was to become a forced labourer, but is far more infamous for
performing grisly human experiments on
camp inmates
Angel of Death
Arbeit Macht Frei“Work Will Make You Free”
Selectionthe process of
“selecting” prisoners for work details or
for the gas chamber