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. | |

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|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). | |

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|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. | |

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|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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