Concepts: Judaism & the Holocaust

Match the following

• organized massacre of a particular ethnic group

• Aryan

• the Jewish quarter of a city; Nazis pushed Jewish families into smaller & smaller parts of town

• pogrom

• prisoner in a concentration camp who was assigned to supervise labor

• Red Army

• term Nazis used to describe a superior race of light-skinned people

• kapo

• The Russian army and air force

• ghetto

The leader of the Nazi party during WWII who created the "Final Solution" was _____.

Destruction of slaughter on a mass scale, especially by fire or nuclear war is _____.

A ​ (a)   was where enemies of the state were held and forced into labor, but a ​ (b)   was where Nazis exterminated large numbers of people.

• concentration camp
• death camp

Match the following

• the Nazi plan for the mass extermination of Jewish people

• boche

• a derogatory term for a German soldier

• genocide

• prejudice against Jewish people

• "Final Solution"

• deliberate killing, on mass scale, of people from a particular nation or ethnic group

• anti-Semitism

The ​ (a)   was the secret state police who investigated political attacks against the Nazis. The ​ (b)   was Hitler's personal security force. Both groups operated with very little supervision.

• Gestapo
• SS

​ (a)   is the celebration of the freeing of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.

​ (b)   is the Jewish New Year.

​ (c)   is the celebration of the Holy Spirit visiting the apostles.

​ (d)   ​ is the Jewish day for asking forgiveness for their sins.

• Passover
• Rosh Hashana
• Pentecost
• Yom Kippur

Match the following

• Movement to develop & protect a Jewish nation is what is now Israel

• Zionism

• Jewish religious building

• synagogue

• Jewish scholar, teacher, and often, religious leader

• rabbi

• small, leather containers worn by Jewish men during prayer to remind them of the law

• phylacteries

Match the following

• Influential Jewish movement where the ideal is to live a hallowed life where everything is sacred

• Kabbalah

• Jewish tradition of the mystical interpretation of the Bible

• Maimonides

• Jewish philosopher, astronomer, & physician

• Hasidism

Match the following

• Prayer of praise to God

• Torah

• Book which is the base of Kabbalah

• Talmud

• First 5 books of the Hebrew Bible

• Kaddish

• Record of debates about the Torah

• Zohar