Holocaust Vocabulary

Anti-Semitism

• Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.

Concentration Camp

• A guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, ethnic minorities and political opponents.

Death Camp

• Concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or they have been sent to be executed.

Genocide

• The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political or cultural group.

Gestapo

• German state secret police during the Nazi regime. Know for brutal methods and operations.

holocaust

• A great or complete devastation or destruction.

Holocaust

• The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Nazi

• Member of the National Socialist German Workers party of Germany. Seized political control of Germany.

Persecution

• To pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment because of religion, race or beliefs.

Propaganda

• Information, ideas or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement or institution.

SS (Schutzstaffel)

• An elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler’s body guards and as a special police force.

Star of David

• A hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.