Holocaust• –noun • 1. a great or complete devastation or

destruction, especially by fire. • 2. a sacrifice completely consumed by

fire; burnt offering. • 3. ( usually initial capital letter ) the

systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during world War II.

SCAPEGOAT

•noun - a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their

place.

Euphemism1. the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be

offensive, harsh, or blunt.

2. the expression so substituted: “To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.”

Nazi EUPHEMISMS• “liquidate” = annihilate • “transport” = deportation• “The Jewish Question”• “The Final Solution”

Propaganda1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately

spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.

Desensitize to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in

feeling through

overexposure (to violence)

Kabbalahbook of Jewish

mystical tradition based on an

esoteric interpretation

of The Old

Testament

Kabbalist 1. an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric

matters 2. a student of the Jewish Kabbalah

Synagogue a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.

2. an assembly or congregation of Jews for the purpose of religious worship.

Talmud

the collection of Jewish law and tradition

Rosh HashanahThe Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish

New Year

Passovera Jewish festival that commemorates

the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual dinner

The Festival of Freedom

Zionisma worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the

state of Israel.

Yellow StarStar of David

-labeling of the Jews by use of the

Jewish badge

Ghetto a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live

Warsaw Ghetto

Cattle Cars

S.S.(Schutzstaffel)

an elite military unit of the Nazi

party that served as Hitler's

bodyguard and as a special police force.

S.S.

Crematorium - furnace for cremating.

Auschwitz

Kaddish – prayer for the dead

Kommando - unit or command - the basic unit of organization of slave

labourers in Nazi concentration camps.

Sonder-Kommandoguarding newly-arrived inmates, escorting them to gas chambers,

searching the bodies & burning them.

Kapoa prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.

Gypsy

Dr. Mengeleone of the SS

physicians who supervised the

selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who

was to become a forced labourer, but is far more infamous for

performing grisly human experiments on

camp inmates

Angel of Death

Arbeit Macht Frei“Work Will Make You Free”

Selectionthe process of

“selecting” prisoners for work details or

for the gas chamber