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The official secret police of Nazi Germany

• Kommando

• Blockalteste

• Kapo

• Gestapo

A period in time where millions of jews were slaughtered on a mass scale.

• Auschwitz

• Holocaust

• Anti-Semitic

• Kommando

The building where a Jewish congregation meets for religious worship and instruction

• Synagogue

• Kapo

• Auschwitz

• Ghetto

The part of the city where Jews were forced to live

• Synagogue

• Kapo

• Ghetto

• Blockalteste

A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp that was assigned to supervise forced labor.

• Gestapo

• Kommando

• Blockalteste

• Kapo

Hostility or hatred towards Jews

• Holocaust

• Auschwitz

• Anti-Semitic

• Kommando

A block elder and inmate in charge of a single concentration camp barrack

• Blockalteste

• Kapo

• Gestapo

• Kommando

The basic unit and organization of slave labor in concentration camps

• Kommando

• Gestapo

• Blockalteste

• Kapo

A member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism.

• Kapo

• Synagogue

• Jew

• Anti-Semitic

A complex of over 40 concentration & extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany

• Auschwitz

• Holocaust

• Synagogue

• Gestapo