Holocaust –noun 1. a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. 2. a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering. 3. ( usually initial capital letter ) the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during world War II.

SCAPEGOAT noun - a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.

Euphemism 1. the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. 2. the expression so substituted: “To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.”

Nazi EUPHEMISMS “liquidate” = annihilate “transport” = deportation “The Jewish Question” “The Final Solution”

Propaganda 1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. 2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.

Desensitize to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in feeling through overexposure (to violence)

Kabbalah book of Jewish mystical tradition based on an esoteric interpretation of The Old Testament

Kabbalist 1. an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters 2. a student of the Jewish Kabbalah

Synagogue a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction. 2. an assembly or congregation of Jews for the purpose of religious worship.

Talmud the collection of Jewish law and tradition

Rosh Hashanah The Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year

Passover a Jewish festival that commemorates the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual dinner The Festival of Freedom

Zionism a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.

Yellow Star Star of David -labeling of the Jews by use of the Jewish badge

Ghetto a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live

Warsaw Ghetto

Cattle Cars

S.S. (Schutzstaffel) an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force.

S.S.

Crematorium - furnace for cremating.

Auschwitz

Kaddish – prayer for the dead

Kommando - unit or command - the basic unit of organization of slave labourers in Nazi concentration camps.

Sonder-Kommando guarding newly-arrived inmates, escorting them to gas chambers, searching the bodies & burning them.

Kapo a prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.

Gypsy

Dr. Mengele one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced labourer, but is far more infamous for performing grisly human experiments on camp inmates

Angel of Death

Arbeit Macht Frei “Work Will Make You Free”

Selection the process of “selecting” prisoners for work details or for the gas chamber