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Holocaust Vocabulary Blitzkrieg • A swift, sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and mobile land forces. Hitler’s fighting strategy. Zionism • Jewish movement to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine Kapo • prisoner given authority over other prisoners Anti-Semitism • attitude that creates discrimination against Jews Buchenwald • concentration camp in central Germany Death Marches • forced marches of concentration camp prisoners, carried out to evacuate camps before the American or Russian Armies arrived to liberate prisoners. synagogue • Jewish house of worship Pogrom • an organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews. Auschwitz • town in Poland, site of major death camp during the Third Reich Genocide • the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. Hanukkah • Jewish festival characterized chiefly by the lighting of the menorah on each night of the festival. Gestapo • German secret police Kristallnacht • night of broken glass, Germans riot destroying Jewish homes and businesses Star of David • six point star, symbol of Judaism Holocaust • a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering, the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II Aryan • a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. those with fair coloring Nazi • National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler menorah • a candelabrum having nine branches, for use on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah Nuremberg • city in Germany, name used to identify anti- Semitic laws established in Nazi Germnay. rabbi • Jewish teacher, official in synagogue selection • in a concentration camp, choosing who was going to die Death Camps • concentration camps during WWII which were used for killing large numbers of Jews and political prisoners.guarded compound for detention of members of ethnic minority Ghetto • section of a city occupied primarily by a specific ethnic group Red Army • Soviet army Final Solution • Nazi plan to kill all Jews. SS • Nazi elite guard, secured concentration camps Deportation • expulsion of people from their homes to a concentration camp Swastika • German symbol of Third Reich Third Reich • third government of Germany, Hitler’s government Zyklon+B • chemical used in concentration camp gas chambers Passover • a Jewish festival that celebrates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt Concentration Camp • guarded compound for detention of members of ethnic minority Mein Kampf • My Struggle, a book by Hitler describing his political beliefs Internment Camp • camp used to imprison Japanese Americans during WWII
