| A | B |
|---|
| crematory | structure used for burning corpses |
| deportation | process of being ejected from one's country |
| genocide | systematic murder of an entire race |
| Kaddish | prayer for the dead |
| Kommando | prisoner work party |
| ghetto | fenced in restricted area where Jews were contained |
| pipel | young boy who worked for German soldier |
| pogrom | organized massacre of a race of people |
| SS | military branch of Nazi Party; Hitler's elite group of soldiers |
| selection | process of being chosen for death |
| Aryan | racial status which meant non-Jewish; thought to be superior |
| Star of David | symbol of Judaism; made of yellow cloth and sewn to clothing for easy identification |
| swastika | emblem and symbol of anti-Semitism |
| deportation | expulsion from a country |
| Final Solution | Hitler's plan to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe |
| scapegoat | innocent person or group blamed for general problems of society and punished harshly for them |
| Kristallnacht | night of the broken glass |
| genocide | systematic killing or program of action intended to destroy a whole national or ethnic group |
| Holocaust | complete destruction by fire; historical period which resulted in the deaths of millions |
| gestapo | Nazi Secret Police |
