| A | B |
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| Star of David | symbol identifying a Jew |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass |
| Einsatzgruppen | mobile killing squads |
| Wannsee Conference | where the Final Solution was planned |
| propaganda | tool to brainwash people |
| Sonderkommando | Jews forced to do certain jobs in the camps |
| 6 million | total number of Jews killed in the Holocaust |
| 11 million | total number of people killed in the Holocaust |
| Others killed | Catholics, homosexuals,Social Democrats, Jehovah's Witnesses, Trade Unionists, Communists, Socialists, Gypsies |
| Anti Semitism | Hatred or persecution of Jews. |
| Arbeit Macht Frei | Work Makes You Free. Slogan on the main gates of Auschwitz. |
| aryan | A nonexistent race of people whom the Nazis believed was superior and should rule the world. |
| Auschwitz | The largest death camp. Established in 1940, it grew to incorporate the death camp Birkenau, and many other sub-camps |
| Blitzkrieg | Nazi Germany's military strategy |
| bunkers | Underground chambers built by Jews for hiding from round-ups in ghettos, towns, and forests. |
| cattle car | Freight cars that were used to transport Jews. |
| concentration camp | A prison camp where the Nazis sent people on the basis of identification with a particular ethnic or political group. |
| crematorium | Oven or furnace where the bodies of concentration and death camp prisoners were burned. |
| death camps | Nazi centers for industrialized murder. Jews and non-Jews were brought to these camps to be put to death. |
| deportation | Term used for the forced removal of Jews in Nazi occupied countries under the pretense of "resettlement." Most Jews were taken to the death camps and killed. |
| extermination | Refers to the annihilation or total destruction of the Jews. |
| Final Solution | Nazi term for their program to exterminate all the Jews. It was a euphemism for mass murder. |
| Fuhrer | This title was used by Adolf Hitler to define his role of absolute dictatorship in Germany's Third Reich. |
| gas chamber | Large, sealed, airtight room used to put people to death with poison gas. |
| Gestapo | The political police of Nazi Germany. It |
| ghetto | Often the most run-down section of a city, where Jews were forced to live |
| Holocaust | The systematic state-sponsored killing of over 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany |
| labor camps | A camp where prisoners, working in inhumane conditions, were used for slave labor.. |
| liquidation | The euphemistic term used by the Nazis for killing and/or removing all Jews from an area. |
| Nazi | Abbreviation for National Socialist German Workers Party. |
| Nuremberg Laws | Two constitutional laws issued on September 15, 1935, they denied all Jews citizenship, depriving them of their rights. |
| pogrom | An organized, officially tolerated attack against a Jewish community. |
| resettlement | A Nazi euphemism to deceive the Jews so they would enter trains and other vehicles for deportation. |
| selection | process by which the Nazis, often physicians, decided who would be slave laborers and who would be killed. |
| swastika | A twisted cross, adopted by the Nazis from an ancient symbol. |
