Holocaust Flashcards
(37 cards)
Policy of “mercy killing” the elderly and handicapped
Euthanasia
The section of a city in which the Jews were forced to live
Ghetto
Roll call area inside concentration, labor, and death camps
Appelplatz
An innocent person blamed for the problems of another
Scapegoat
The systematic elimination of a people or nation
Genocide
Discrimination or persecution of Jews
Anti-Semitism
German for Jews
Juden
Steps of a genocide
- Denial of justice
- Persecution
- Isolation
- Dehumanization
- Violence
- Mass Execution
- Denial
Furnaces where human bodies were burned
Crematorium
SS killing units that sought out and murdered Jews in the Soviet Union
Einsatzgruppen
Secret police
Gestapo
Head of Jewish council established by Nazis in each ghetto
Judenrat
The nazi considered this the “superior race”
Aryan
What does the word holocaust mean
Burnt hole
The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz
Zyklon-B
Items piled at train station in Schindler’s list
Glasses, photos, clothes, shoes, teeth, luggage
What splash of color does Schindler see
Red
What do the women do to their faces and why? Schindlers list
Rub blood from their fingers onto it to make them look healthy
What does Schindler give for the women to be back in his custody
Diamonds, jewels
What do the workers make in Poland
Pots and pans, ammunition shells
What do the workers make to show their gratitude for Schindler
A ring made out of a mans filling
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Jehovah witness
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Homosexual
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Gypsies