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.