| A | B |
|---|
| Capo | Jews who worked inside concentration camps |
| Antisemitism | Prejudice and discrimination against Jews |
| Aryan | The pure, superior, Germanic race |
| Auschwitz | One of largest death camps; located in Poland |
| Babi Yar | Ravine in the Ukraine where 34,000 Jews were killed & buried |
| Chelmo | The first death camp to become operational |
| Concentration Camp | Camp for holding enemies of 3rd Reich |
| Deportation | Removal & relocation of people; Jews were deported to ghettos & camps |
| Final Solution | Hitler's plan to exterminate European Jewry |
| Genocide | Systematic anhilation of a whole people or nation |
| Gestapo | German internal security police |
| Ghetto | Walled section of a city where Jews were forced to live |
| Holocaust | Literally means "burnt offering;" the genocide of 11 million by the Nazis |
| Juden | German word for Jew |
| Kristallnacht | Night of broken glass; Nazis destroyed Jewish synagogues & businesses |
| Madagascar Plan | 1940 plan of Nazis to send Jews to Madagascar |
| Nazi | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Nuremberg | German city where war criminals were tried |
| Pink Triangle | Nazi symbol homosexuals were required to wear |
| Pogrom | "Devastation;" discriminatory action against Jews |
| SS | Hitler's elite guard |
| Shoah | Another word for "Holocaust" |
| Third Reich | Nazi Germany until the end of WWII |
| Zionism | Desire of Jews to trutn to ancestral homeland |
