| A | B |
| anti-Semitism | Opposition to and discrimination against Jews |
| Aryan | In Nazi racial theory, a person of pure German "blood". |
| b'richa | The organized and illegal mass movement of Jew throughout Europe following WWII. |
| concentration camps | prisons used without regard to accepted norms of arrest and detention |
| death camps | Nazi extermination centers where Jews and other victims were brought to be killed as part of Hitler's Final Solution |
| dehumanization | Nazi policy of denying Jews basic civil rights such as practicing religion, education, and adequate housing. |
| displacement | The process of people being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war. |
| euthanasia | deliberate killings of institutionalized physically, mentally and emotionally handicapped people by the Nazis |
| genocide | deliberated and systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural or religious group. |
| Gestapo | Secret State Police that used violent methods to investigate and suppress resistance to Nazi rule within Germany |
| holocaust | the systematic planned extermination of about six million European Jews and millions of others by the Nazis |
| marranos | Jews who professed to accept Christianity in order to escape persecution during the Spanish Inquisition. |
| Pogrom | An organized and often officially encouraged massacre of or attack on Jews. |
| propaganda | false or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of the population |