| A | B |
| Talmud | Civil and religious laws of Jewish people |
| Cabbala | Jewish mysticism |
| Gestapo | Elite guards of the Nazis; headed by Himmler |
| Holocaust | Destruction of 6 million Jews between 1941-1945 |
| Kaddish | death prayer |
| Kapos | Jewish prisoners; often brutal; who controlled concentration camp inmates for Germans in exchange for special treatment |
| NAZI | National Socialist German Association |
| Passover | the holiday commemorating the 10th plague that Jehovah visted the pharoah |
| Rosh Hashanah | Jewish New Year |
| Selection | process for determining who went to work and who went to the furnace |
| SS | German secret police |
| Yon Kippur | Day of Atonement |