Holocaust vocabulary

prejudice, dislike or hatred of the Jews

• Concentration Camp

• Final Solution

• Antisemitism

• Gas Chambers

-Term used by the Nazis to describe northern European physical characteristics (such as blonde hair and blue eyes) as racially “superior”

• Gestapo

• Crematorium

• Fuhrer

• Aryan

Camps in which Jews were imprisoned by the Nazis

• Final Solution

• Gas Chambers

• Ghetto

• Concentration Camp

Ovens built in concentration camps

• gas chambers

• Holocaust

• Crematorium

• Nazi

Term used by the Nazis to describe their plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe.

• Final solution

• Third Reich

• SS

• Nuremberg Laws

German word for "leader

• Gestapo

• Holocaust

• Fuhrer

• Kristallnacht

Large, sealed rooms (usually with shower nozzles) used for murdering prisoners

• gas chambers

• crematorium

• Swastika

• Nuremberg Laws

The secret state police of the German army, organized to stamp out any political opposition.

• Swastika

• Gestapo

• SS

• Fuhrer

A section of a city where Jews were forced to live

• Nazi

• Holocaust

• ghetto

• antisemitism

Term first used to describe the systematic torture and murder of approximately six million European Jews and millions of other "undesirables" by the Nazi regime

• Kristallnacht

• Ghetto

• Gas chambers

• Holocaust