1. Holocaust Vocabulary

2. Blitzkrieg A swift, sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and mobile land forces. Hitler’s fighting strategy.

3. Zionism Jewish movement to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

4. Kapo prisoner given authority over other prisoners

5. Anti-Semitism attitude that creates discrimination against Jews

6. Buchenwald concentration camp in central Germany

7. Death Marches forced marches of concentration camp prisoners, carried out to evacuate camps before the American or Russian Armies arrived to liberate prisoners.

8. synagogue Jewish house of worship

9. Pogrom an organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews.

10. Auschwitz town in Poland, site of major death camp during the Third Reich

11. Genocide the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

12. Hanukkah Jewish festival characterized chiefly by the lighting of the menorah on each night of the festival.

13. Gestapo German secret police

14. Kristallnacht night of broken glass, Germans riot destroying Jewish homes and businesses

15. Star of David six point star, symbol of Judaism

16. Holocaust a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering, the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II

17. Aryan a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. those with fair coloring

18. Nazi National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler

19. menorah a candelabrum having nine branches, for use on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah

20. Nuremberg city in Germany, name used to identify anti- Semitic laws established in Nazi Germnay.

21. rabbi Jewish teacher, official in synagogue

22. selection in a concentration camp, choosing who was going to die

23. 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

24. Ghetto section of a city occupied primarily by a specific ethnic group

25. Red Army Soviet army

26. Final Solution Nazi plan to kill all Jews.

27. SS Nazi elite guard, secured concentration camps

28. Deportation expulsion of people from their homes to a concentration camp

29. Swastika German symbol of Third Reich

30. Third Reich third government of Germany, Hitler’s government

31. Zyklon+B chemical used in concentration camp gas chambers

32. Passover a Jewish festival that celebrates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt

33. Concentration Camp guarded compound for detention of members of ethnic minority

34. Mein Kampf My Struggle, a book by Hitler describing his political beliefs

35. Internment Camp camp used to imprison Japanese Americans during WWII