Holocaust Key Vocabulary

Deportation

• The term meaning to expel or forcibly transport persons from one country to another location against their will by governmental authorities.

• The process of moving to another country.

• The way that Nazis trained for the war.

• The style of leadership in Germany.

Genocide

• the study of genetics

• the way Nazis trained soldiers

• the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

• the way Jews were saved from the Nazis.

Gestapo

• Secret Jewish network to help Jews.

• Hitler's secret police

• Allies who helped the U.S. win the war.

• Secret Jewish police.

Ghetto

• A place that doesn't really exist.

• A place only in rap songs.

• A section of the city where only Aryan's could live.

• The section of the city where the Jews were forced to live. It was crowded. It had restrictions, hardships, extreme poverty, and other hardships.

Kristallnacht

• A Jewish term for the Holocaust.

• This term translates as "night of broken glass"; a day in 1938 when Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were attacked, and Jews were first deported.

• A term used to refer to Jewish people.

• A term used to refer to Nazi soldiers.

Liberation

• A secret Jewish term that meant freedom.

• A term used to refer to Nazi soldiers.

• The term used to refer to Jewish people who were captured.

• The term means that prisoners were freed from captivity. When Allied and Soviet troops moved across Europe, they freed prisoners of the concentrations camps.

Nazi

• Jewish people who escaped.

• any German during WWII

• a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

• Secret soldiers.

Final Solution

• Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

• The strategy the Allies used to win the war.

• A training program used by Nazis.

• The extermination of Nazi soldiers after the war.

Allies

• A friend or helper. During World War II, France, the United States, Russia (Soviet Union) , and Britain (United Kingdom, worked to defeat Germany and its Axis partners.

• The hatred of Jews

• A place Jewish people were sent

• People who wanted to help Hitler win the war.

Nuremburg Laws

• Laws that happened after World War II.

• Laws that took away the civil rights and citizenship of Jews. It systematized the discrimination and persecution of the Jews

• Laws that banned Nazis from America.

• Laws that made Aryan the official race of Germany.