| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass." Anti-Jewish riots of November 9-10, 1938. Planned by the German government and the Gestapo. Synagogues were burned, Jewish stores looted and Jewish men arrested. |
| Mein Kampf | Book written by Adolf Hitler outlining his ideas about race and anti-Semitism. Translates to My Struggle. |
| Nazi | Term used for the National Socialist German Workers Party, a political party formed in 1919. |
| Nuremberg Laws | Laws formulated in 1935 which stripped the Jewish people in Germany of thier civil rights and restricted their political and social life. |
| Nuremberg Trials | A series of public trials set up by the Allies. November 1945 until October 1946. |
| Pogrom | Russian word used to describe organized violence against Jews. |
| Righteous Gentiles | The Christians who saved the Jews at risk of their own lives |
| Shoah | Complete destruction by fire (Devastation) |
| SS | Best known for carrying out the destruction of European Jews. Their abbreviation was written with two lightning symbols. |
| January 30, 1933 | Hitler appointed as chancellor |
| July 14, 1933 | Nazi party established as the one and only legal political party in Germany |
| September 1, 1939 | Germany invades Poland. WWII begins. |
| December 11, 1941 | Germany declares war on the US |
| April 30, 1945 | Hitler commits suicide |
| May 7, 1945 | Germany surrenders. War ends. |
| Third Reich | Nazi terminology for Germany from January 1933 to May 1945. |
| Wannsee Conference | Meeting held on January 20, 1942, where the Final solution was adopted. |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Capital of Poland, ghetto was established in 1940. Uprising in 1943 by Jewish resistance fighters. Largest camp. |
| Allies | Nations fighting Nazi Germany. |
| Anti-Semitism | Hatred of Jews |
| Aryan | Nazis applied this term to the people of northern European racial background. It consisted of whites with blonde hair and blue eyes. |
| Auschwitz | Concentration/Extermination Camp in Poland. It was the largest camp. |
| Chancellor | Prime minister, head of the government |
| Concentration Camp | Prison camps built to hold anyone the Nazis considered socially or racially undesirable |
| Dachau | A concentration camp in Germany. It was the model for all camps that followed it. |
| Displaced Persons Camps | Set up after the war for victims freed from the Nazi camps. |
| Adolf Eichmann | Lieutenant Colonel in the SS. Organized transport of Jews to concentration camps. |
| Final Solution | The cover name for the plan to destroy the Jews of Europe |
| Genocide | The deliberate destruction of a religious, racial, national, or cultural group. |
| Ghettos | Sections of towns and cities in which Jews were forced to live. |
| Joseph Goebbels | Nazi Minister of Propaganda. |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader and Chancellor of Germany from 1933 - 1945. He committed suicide before the war ended. |
| Holocaust | The destruction of some 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in an attempt to destroy all Jews in Europe between the years 1933-1945. |
| Israel | The Jewish homeland, which became a state in 1948. |
| Judenrein | German word meaning "cleansed of Jews" |
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