| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Holocaust | Genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis in WWII |
| Genocide | the systematica and planned extermination of an entire group |
| Concentration Camp | camp where civilians, enemy aliens, and P.O.W. are detained, usually under harsh conditions |
| Final Solution | Nazi program of extermination Jews |
| appell | roll call |
| extermination | to get rid of by destroying completely |
| gas chamber | an instrument of execution consistiong of a sealed chamber into which a poison gas is introduced |
| zyklon B gas | Hydrogen cyanide used as a poisonous gas |
| crematorium | a furnace for the incineration of corpses |
| Aryan Race | Non-Jewish Caucasian, espacially one of Nordic type supposed to be part of a master race |
| eugenics | study of heredity improvement |
| Nazism | policy of the Nazis |
| persecution | discrimination based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs |
| Gestapo | German police |
| Third Reich | the German State from 1933-1945 under Adolf Hitler |
| swastika | Emblem of the Nazi party and the German state under Hitler |
| Nuremburg Laws | discremanotory against Jews |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Established in 1940 to restrict the rights of Jews |
| Dachau | Concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany |
| Auschwitz/Birkenau | Nazi concentration camps for jews in southweatern Poland |
| Bergen-Belsen | Nazi concentration camp in Northern Germany |
| Israel | Ancient kingdom of palestine founded by Saul |
| liberation | the act of freeing people from concentration camps |
| blitzkrieg | Swift, sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and land forces |
| Allies | the nations, primarily Great Britain, Frnace, the Soviet Union, and the U.S.A., allied against the Axis during WWII |
| deportation | expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country |
| Kapos | Jewish trustee inmates who supervised other prisoners |
| Kristallnacht | "night of broken glass" |
| labor camps | Prison camps where forced labor is performed |
| SS | Hitler's personal guard |
| gypsies | People group that arrived in Europe in migrations from Norhtern India |
| Star of David | Six pointed star that symbolizes the Jewish people |
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