Holocaust Flashcards
(25 cards)
Anti-semitism
Predudice against the jews as a racial or cultural group
Aryan
Non-jewish caucasian group seen by the nazis as superior often associated with blue eyes and blond hair
Boycott
Collective action involving the refusal to conduct commerce with a particular group as a punishment
Diasphora
The spread of jewish people out of their historic homeland
Genocide
The systematic extermination of a racial or cultural group
What is the religious belief system of the jews?
Judaism
Petty apartheid
Low level discrimination aimed at identifying and separating racial groups in a society. Eg shop boycotts
Pogrom
Violent attack against a particular ethnic or racial group
What is the jewish scripture?
Torah
What is the un?
United nations, is a international body set up after ww2 with their main goal of promoting development and avoiding future wars.
UNSCOP
United Nation Special Commision On Palestine
Zionism
Political and cultural movement dedicated to the establishment of a jewish homeland as a refugee against persecution
How many jews did the nazi’s murder?
6 million, a quarter of whom where children
Where was adolf hitler born? When was he born?
Austria, 20th April 1889.
NSDAP or nazi’s (long version)
National Socialist german worker party
Which two positions did hitler combine to make fuhrer?
Chancellor and president
When did hitler become chancellor?
30th of January, 1933
What are the stages of hitlers anti-jewish actions?
Petty apartheid
Nuremberg laws
Krystallnacht
Public identification
What was krystallnacht?
The night of brocken glass. A series of violent attacks against jews and jewish property across germany in nov 1938.
This is a turning point > violence against jews is seen as socially acceptable.
What was the public identification of jews?
- all jewish passports and identity documents to be marked with a ‘J’
- all jews to wear the yellow star of david
- forced to change their names, males Israel and females Sarah
When did germany invade polland?
1st of September 1939
What were the 6 extermination camps?
Belzec Chelmno Sobibor Majdanec Treblinka Auschwitz-Birkenau
The most holy day in the jewish calendar?
Yom kipur or day of atonement
The largest jewish ghetto?
Warsaw
