| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Genocide | annihilation of a group of people |
| Rabbi | A Jewish religious leader |
| Synagogue | A Jewish place of worship -aka Temple |
| Adolf Hitler | 1889-1945? Nazi leader and dictator of Germany/The Third Reich 1934-1945 |
| Barracks | An area in the concentration camps where the prisoners were housed |
| Ghettos | Where the Jews were sealed inside the poorest parts of town with over crowded conditions and little food |
| Racism | Hatred against a particular group of people |
| Dr. Joseph Goebbels | 1897-1945- Nazi propaganda leader during the Third Reich |
| Heinrich Himmler | 1900-1945- Nazi leader of the Gestapo/secret police leader during the Third Reich |
| The Third Reich | The Nazi regime/kingdom 1934-1945 |
| The Blood Liable | The rumor that started a long time ago that spread fear in to Christians-Jews stole Christian children for their blood |
| The Final Solution | The Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews |
| Arbeit Macht Frei | translates to= work will liberate- The Nazis had this saying over many entrances to concentration camps |
| Gas chambers/showers | Jews were murdered in chambers filled with a poisonous gas called-Zyklon B. In many cases they were told that they were going to take showers... |
| Selection | When Jews and others in the ghettos and camps were chosen for death |
| Juden rat | The Jewish council members chosen by the Nazis to run the ghettos |
| The Nuremberg Laws | Laws established to take away the Jews citizenship and made them "subjects" |
| Gestapo | The secret police or Green police during the Nazi rule |
| SS men | An elite Nazi military unit-they ran the concentration camps and fought on the front lines |
| Warsaw | The capital of Poland-one of the largest ghettos was here |
| Lodz | Located in Poland-a large ghetto (mentioned in The Cage) was here |
| The Night of Broken Glass | November 9-10 1938, when all Jewish businesses and homes were destroyed. Synagogues were burned, and Jews were beaten and killed. |
| Propaganda | The spreading of information to injure or promote a cause, a group, and/or a belief. |
| Hermann Wilhelm Goering (Goring) | Nazi leader of the SS men-died during the Nuremberg trials by hanging himself before his sentencing |
| Yad Vashem | The largest Holocaust Memorial museum- located in Israel |
| Liberation | The freeing of the prisoners from the ghettos and concentration camps |
| Dachau | The first concentration camp established by Hitler (1933)/located in Germany |
| Pogrom | an organized massacre |
| Concentration camps | The Nazis sent Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Partisans, the phyically and mentally handicapped and anyone who spoke out against the Nazis and Hitler to these prisons. |
| Ration | A certain amount of food/clothing given to an individual during war time to prevent hoarding. |
| Fascism | A form of government led by one ruler |
| Persecution | Bullying, harassment and killing of a group of people because of their beliefs, culture, social status, etc. |
| Anti-semitism | Against anything or anyone Jewish |
| Aryan | A German-born, blonde hair, blue eyed non-Jew/Hitler's ideal superior person |
| Allies | The countries fighting against the Nazis during WWII- France, Great Britain, United States, Russia, etc. |
| Nazis | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Chancellor | Hitler became this in 1933 |
| holocaust | A total destruction by fire |
| Holocaust | 1933-1945 when 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis |
| Partisan | Rebels against the Nazis during the war |
| Auschwitz-Birkenau | A concentration camp in Poland-notorious for being one of the largest death camps |
| Sobibor | A concentration camp in POland known for the great escape |
| Bergen-Belsen | A concentration camp in northern Germany where Anne Frank died |
| Sonderkommando | AKA-Kapo-- a Jew put in charge of the barrack |
| D-day/Doomsday | June 6,1944-the allied invasion of Europe-Battle of Normany/Omaha and Utah Beach |
| Displaced Persons Camps | Camps set up by the Allies after they liberated a concentration camp to take care of the sick, weak and starving |
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