Holocaust Flashcards
(38 cards)
Albeit Macht Frei
Work make your free. slogan on the main gates of Aushwitz
Crematorium
The oven or fur ace where bodies of concentration and death camp prisoners were burned
Ghetto
Enclosed urban neighborhood❌
Cattle car
Freight cars that were used to transport Jews
Gestapo
The political police of Nazi Germany
Deportation
Term used for the forced removal of Jews in Nazi occupied countries under the pretense of “resettlement.” Most Jews were take to the death camps and killed.
Pogrom
An organized, officially tolerated attack against a Jewish community
Final Solution
Nazi term for their program to exterminate all the Jews. A euphemism for mass murded.
Resettlement
A Nazi euphemism to deceive the Jews so they would enter trains and other vehicle for deportation.
Sonderkommando
Jews forced to do certain jobs in the camps
Bunkers
Underground chambers built by Jews for hiding from round ups in ghettos, towns, and forests.
11 million
Total number of people killed in the holocaust
Anti Semitism
Hatred of persecution of Jewsw
Fuhrer
The title was used by Adolfo Hitler to define his role of absolute dictatorship in Germany’s Third Reich
Anti-Semitism
Racism towards Jewish people
Wannabe Conference
Where the final solution was planned
Star of David
Symbol Identifying a Jews
Nazi
Abbreviation for National Socialists anger an Workers Party
Holocaust
The systematic state-sponsored killing of over 6⃣million Jews by Nazi Germany
Other killed
Catholics, homosexuals, social democrats, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Trade Unionists, Communists Socialists, Gypsies
Concentration Camp
A prison camp where the Nazis sent people on the basis of identification with a particular ethnic or political group
6⃣ Million
Total number of Jews killed in the Holocaust
Death camps
Nazi center for industrialized murder. Jews and non-Jews were brought to these camps to be put to death
Aryan
A nonexistent race of people whom the Nazis believe was superior and should rule the world