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Holocaust Terms

Aktion
A Nazi operation involving seeking
out, assembling, shooting, deporting to
labor or death camps that took place in
Jewish villages or ghettos.

Anielewicz, Mordechai
A Jewish resistance leader in the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising.

Antisemitism
Dislike or hatred against the Jews

Appell
The roll call of prisoners that could take hours to do.

Canada
The name given to the storage buildings by
the prisoners who worked in them.

Concentration Camp
Camps in which Jews were imprisoned by
the Nazis.

Crematorium
Ovens in the concentration camps where
the Jews were taken to be killed by fire or
gas.

Death Camp
A camp with the sole purpose to kill.

Final Solution
Term used by the Nazis meaning to
annihilate all the Jews.

Fuhrer
German word for “leader” adopted by
Adolf Hitler himself.

Gas Chamber
A sealed room where many Jews were
killed at once by inhaling gas.

Gestapo
The secret state police of the German Army

Hitler, Adolf
Leader of the National Socialist German
Workers' Party.

Holocaust
Term made in the 1950’s that describes the
murder and torture of over 6 million Jews
and about 3 million other “undesirables”.

Judenrein
A term used to describe an area which has
been "cleansed" or "purified" of all Jews by
deportation or murder.

Jews
A person that follows the Jewish community
or culture.

Mein Kampf
Autobiography by Hitler himself that states
his ambitions, ideas, and plans for future
Germany.

Nazi
Name for members of the NSDAP, National
Socialist Democratic Workers Party, who
believed in the idea of Aryan supremacy.

Pogrom
An organized, state-sponsored attack.

SA
Storm troopers, the terrorist branch of the
Nazi army, and the ones who helped Hitler
get to his full power.

Scrip
Paper currency or tokens used as evidence
that the bearer was entitled to receive
something in return.

Swastika
The official symbol of the Nazis.

Torah
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible.

Zyklon B
Gas used to kill the Jews in the gas
chambers.

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