Holocaust Vocabulary

Prejudice or hatred against Jews.

• Nazis

• Genocide

• Anti-Semitism

• Pogroms

Violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group

• Swastika

• Pogroms

• Gestapo

• Genocide

Violent riot aimed at the persecution of religious or ethnic groups

• Kristallnacht

• Pogroms

• Genocide

• Deportation

National Social German Workers’ Party, headed by Hitler

• SS (Schutzstaffel

• Nazi Party

• Gestapo

• Ghettos

The German internal security police as organized under the Nazi regime, known for its terrorist methods directed against those suspected of treason or questionable loyalty.

• Gestapo

• Juden

• Genocide

• Kristallnacht

Hitler’s Protection Squadron that was in charge of security and ethnic identification.

• SS

• Final Solution

• Juden

• Gestapo

Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live.

• Gestapo

• Warsaw

• Concentration Camp

• Ghettos

Jews were transported from their homes to concentration camps. An average transport lasted about four days with no water, food, toilet, nor ventilation. Some boxcars had150 people stuffed into them.

• Deportation

• Genocide

• Displaced Persons

• Auschwitz

Holocaust means..........

• transport to the United States

• to deprive a human of their rights.

• destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

Bonus Question: A wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, where broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, andJewish-owned businesses were plundered and destroyed.

• Ghettos

• Nuremberg Race Laws

• Kristallnacht

• Star of David.