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Holocaust Vocabulary
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Vocabulary words that can help you understand the other aspects of the Holocaust.
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What Is Yon Hashoan?
Holocaust Memorial Day; people honor & remember the dead
When the German's met to discuss "The Final Resolution"
A Jewish holiday where 1 man in the village becomes leader.
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What Is the Definition of Genocide?
The deliberate killing of a certain person.
The deliberate killing of a certain group of people.
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What Does Fuehrer Mean?
It is German for "Leader"
It's what the Jews called the German's, which means "Killer"
It is German for "Fighter"
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What Was the Wannsee Conference?
When the top German officials met at Lake Wannsee in Berlin.
Jews met to discuss their escape out of Auschwitz.
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What Is A Collaborator During the Holocaust?
One who cooperates with an enemy who is in the country.
One who does NOT cooperate with the enemy in their country.
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What Does S.S Stand For?
This means "schutzstaffel", which were Hitler's elite group
"Society Stand", which is when people stood up for the Jews.
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What Does SA Stand For?
It is short for "Sturmabteilung" which means "stormtrooper".
It is short for "Soldat" which means "soldier"
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What Was the Name of Hitler's Book?
Mein Kummer
Mein Laben
Mein Kampf
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What Is A Crematoria?
A furnace constructed to burn humans, specifically blacks.
A room where Jews were gassed.
A furnace constructed to burn humans, specifically the Jews.
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What Does Partisan Mean?
A member of a resistance group operating with the enemy.
A member of a support group operating secretly with the Jews
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What Is An Aryan?
The superior race, being the Jews.
Nazis' changed meaning to superior race, being caucasians.
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What Does Sntetl Mean?
Hebrew for "Settle".
Yiddish for "Settlement".
Yiddish for "small Jewish town/village".
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What Does Anti-semitism mean?
Lack of fairness or justice.
Prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.
Harm that may result from some action or judgment.
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What Is A Bar Mitzvah?
Jewish ceremony held on boys' 13th birthday.
Jewish ceremony held on boy's 14th birthday.
Jewish ceremony held on girl's' 12th birthday.
Jewish ceremony held on boy's 12th birthday.
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What Was the Evian Conference?
A conference talking about Jewish refugees in the US.
July 1938- Roosevelt discussed the refugees held in France.
May 1938- Roosevelt discussed the refugees held in France.
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What is A Gestapo?
The Jewish police force.
Nazi police that had power, & they could also arrest Jews.
A type of ghetto that Jews were forced to live in.
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What Does Einsatzgruppen mean? What Is It?
It means "torture". ( What the German's did to the Jews)
They forced the Jews to dig their own graves.
German name for killing squads.
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Was Auschwitz the Largest Concentration Camp?
Buchenwald, Germany was the biggest concentration camp.(duh)
Yes.
No.
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What Were the Nuremberg Laws?
Policies & legal exclusion of gypsies in German life.
Policies & legal exclusion of Jews in German life.
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What Happened to the Gypsies During the Holocaust?
They escaped to Poland and hid away in underground homes.
They were forced to work at camps.
250-500 gypsies were killed along with the Jewish people.
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What Was the Displaced Person's Camp, (DP Camp)
Living quarters for people who were affected by Holocaust.
A camp where Jews who ran away were taken to & punished.
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What Does Euphemism Mean?
A nice way of saying something nice or good.
A nice way of saying something bad.
A way of saying someone is bad.
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What Was the Death March?
Jewish prisoners were forced to walk for 8 hours everyday.
Jewish prisoners were forced to walk to the German interior.
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What Does Pogrom Mean?
It means "devastation" in Russian.
It means "fighting" in Russian.
It means "violence" in Hebrew.
