Holocaust Vocabulary

5 Written Questions

1. nazi centers of murder and extermination
2. practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race
3. the policy of mercy killing the old and handicapped
4. ss killing units that sought out and slaughtered jews in soviet union
5. roll call area inside the camps

5 Matching Questions

1. uebermenschen
2. crematorium
3. concentration camp
4. juden
5. scapegoat

1. a furnaces where human bodies were burned
2. b nazi term for supermen, the racial ideal
3. c place where political prisoners were kept
4. d german for jews
5. e an innocent person blamed for the problems of another

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the gas used to kill jews in the gas chambers at the death camps
   1. zyklon b
   2. Aryan
   3. juden
   4. pogroms
2. symbol of the nazi party; originally an ancient religious symbol
   1. scapegoat
   2. nazi
   3. swastika
   4. racism
3. the nazi term for the annihilation of the jews in europe
   1. final solution
   2. selection
   3. deportation
   4. Anti-Semitism
4. head of the jewish council established by the nazis in each jewish ghetto
   1. juden
   2. judenrein
   3. scapegoat
   4. judenrat
5. organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people
   1. Aryan
   2. racism
   3. pogroms
   4. ghetto

5 True/False Questions

1. nazi → practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race

   True        False

2. ghetto → abbreivation for Geheim Staatspolizei (secret state police)

   True        False

3. gestapo → the section of a city where Jews were forced to live

   True        False

4. judenrein → head of the jewish council established by the nazis in each jewish ghetto

   True        False

5. selection → the section of a city where Jews were forced to live

   True        False