Vocab Word - Chandler Unified School District
|1. Allies |1. A group of 26 nations led by Great Britain, the United |1. |
| |States, and the Soviet Union that opposed Germany, Italy, and | |
| |Japan in World War II. | |
| | | |
|2. Anti-Semitism |2. |2. |
|3. Auschwitz-Birkenau |3. Largest of the Nazi concentration camps, located in |3. |
| |southwestern Poland. More than one million Jews were murdered | |
| |there. | |
|4. Bergen-Belsen |4. A concentration camp in northern Germany. Epidemics, |4. |
| |overcrowding, and planned starvation in this camp led to the | |
| |deaths of more than 34,168 people, including Anne and Margot | |
| |Frank. | |
|5.Bombardment |5 .A continuous attack with bombs, shells, or other missiles. |5. |
|6. Kabbala |6 |6. |
|7. Concentration camps |7. Prison camps that held Jews, Gypsies, political and religious|7. |
| |opponents of the Nazis, resistance fighters, homosexual men and | |
| |women, and others considered enemies of the state. People died | |
| |of starvation, slave labor, and disease. | |
|8. Death marches |8. Took place in the late fall of 1944 to 1945. The SS marched|8. |
| |concentration camp inmates on long, often pointless treks into | |
| |the heart of Germany and Austria. | |
|9. Deportation |9. |9. |
|10. Displaced persons (DP’s) |10. Jews and others who at war’s end did not wish to be |10. |
| |repatriated to their former communities/countries of origin were| |
| |placed in DP camps. | |
|11. Firmament |11. |11. |
|12. Final solution |12. |12. |
|13. Forced-labor camps |13. Camps where prisoners were used as slave labor. |13. |
| | | |
|14. Genocide |14. |14. |
|15.Ghetto |15. A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority |15. |
| |group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic | |
| |pressure. The term was originally used in Venice to describe the| |
| |part of a city to which Jews were restricted and segregated. | |
|16. Hasid(ic) |16. A Jewish mystical sect founded in Poland in 1750. |16. |
|17. Judenrat |17. German, “Jewish council.” Ghetto Jewish councils set up by |17. |
| |Nazis and under their strict control. Jewish leaders, called | |
| |Elders, collaborated in Nazi plans for Jewish ghetto life. | |
|18. Kaddish |18. A Jewish prayer recited in the daily ritual of the synagogue|18. |
| |and by mourners at public services after the death of a close | |
| |relative. | |
|19. Kapo |19. Italian, “chief or head.” An inmate in a concentration camp|19. |
| |who assisted in the administration of the camp in return for | |
| |additional rations and better living conditions. | |
|20. Muselmann |20. German, “Muslim.” A physically and emotionally run-down |20. |
| |concentration camp inmate who was so weak he could not walk, | |
| |work, or stand; he looked like a praying Muslim. | |
|21. Occupation |21. Control of a country by a foreign military power. |21. |
|22. Passover |22. A Jewish holiday beginning on the 14th of Nisan (month on |22. |
| |Jewish calendar) and commemorating the Hebrews' liberation from | |
| |slavery in Egypt. | |
|23.Pentecost |23. A Jewish holiday observed on the 6th and 7th day of Sivan |23. |
| |commemorating the revelation of the Ten Commandments on Mt. | |
| |Sinai; a Christians feast day on the 7th Sunday after Easter. | |
|24.Premonition |24. |24. |
|25. Rabbi |25. |25. |
|26. Rosh Hashanah |26. The Jewish New Year observed on the first and by Orthodox |26. |
| |and Conservative Jews also on the second of Tishri (month on | |
| |Jewish calendar). | |
| | | |
|27. Selection |27. In ghettos, the SS selected which Jews would be deported. |27. |
| |In camps, the SS weeded out exhausted and sick inmates for | |
| |murder. | |
|28. Sho’ah |28. Hebrew, “mass slaughter.” This Hebrew word is preferred |28. |
| |over “Holocaust” in Israel. It is found in Isaiah 10:3 and | |
| |means destruction, complete ruination. | |
|29. SS |29. The abbreviation for Schutzstaffel, the black-shirted elite |29. |
| |guard of Hitler, later the political police in charge of the | |
| |concentration and death camps. | |
|30. Synagogue |30. |30. |
|31. Swastika |31. An ancient religious symbol of good luck (a hooked cross). |31. |
| |It began its use as a symbol of anti-semitic organizations in | |
| |1910, and the Nazi Party adopted it as their emblem in 1920. | |
| |Now banned in Germany, the swastika is still used by neo-Nazis | |
| |around the world. | |
| | | |
|32. Talmud |32. A collection of teachings of early rabbis from the 5th/6th |32. |
| |centuries. | |
|33. Third Reich |33. A term given by Hitler to his regime (1933-1945). The first|33. |
| |Reich was the Holy Roman Empire; the second was the Kaiser | |
| |Reich. | |
|34. Torah |34. The primary source in the Jewish religion is the Hebrew |34. |
| |Bible. | |
|35. Yellow star |35. The six-pointed Star of David was a Jewish symbol that the |35. |
| |Nazis forced Jews above the age of six to wear as a mark of | |
| |shame and to make Jews visible. In the Netherlands the star | |
| |carried the word Jood, meaning "Jew," in the middle. From May | |
| |1942 until she went into hiding, Anne Frank wore a yellow star, | |
| |separating her from the rest of the Dutch population. | |
|36. Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide) |36. A poisonous gas used in the gas chambers of the Nazi |36. |
| |extermination camps. | |
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