Holocaust Vocabulary Please take notes in the Literature section of your binder.

1. holocaust Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, caused by fire or nuclear war

2. Aryan The Nazi term that meant a “superior Caucasian Gentile”

Superior?

3. Final Solution The term used by Nazis to mean the mass physical extermination of the Jews

4. Genocide The killing of a whole people or nation

5. Gestapo The German security police

6. S.S. The security organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party

7. Prejudice A judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known

8. Discrimination The unjust or prejudicial treatment of a group of people (actions)

9. Scapegoat A person, group, or thing that bears the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others

9. Third Reich Hitler’s administration in Germany

10. Auschwitz A city in southwestern Poland where there was an infamous extermination camp duleId= &MediaId=3371http:// duleId= &MediaId=3371

11. Ghettos Sections of to14towns or cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.

12. Lodz Ghetto Pronounced (lo sch) The first major ghetto, with 164,000 Jews Established in Poland on May 1,1940

13. Ration a fixed amount of a goods officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.

14. Fascism A social and political ideology A system of government with a centralized authority under a dictator Suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship The state or nation is the highest priority Personal/Individual freedoms often limited

15. antisemitism Prejudiice or discrimination against Jews.

16. stereotypes An oversimplified generalization about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences.

17. propaganda False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of a population

18. Religious Terms Cabbala Jewish mysticism An approach to Bible study that analyzes hidden meanings in the text Torah and Talmud Sacred Jewish texts