Picture DictionaryHolocaust Terms

AktionA Nazi operation involving seeking out,

assembling, shooting, deporting to labor or death camps that took place in Jewish

villages or ghettos.

Anielewicz, MordechaiA Jewish resistance leader in the Warsaw

Ghetto uprising.

AntisemitismDislike or hatred against the Jews

Appell The roll call of prisoners that could take hours to do.

CanadaThe name given to the storage buildings

by the prisoners who worked in them.

Concentration CampCamps in which Jews were imprisoned by

the Nazis.

CrematoriumOvens in the concentration camps where the Jews were taken to be killed by fire or

gas.

Death CampA camp with the sole purpose to kill.

Final SolutionTerm used by the Nazis meaning to

annihilate all the Jews.

FuhrerGerman word for “leader” adopted by

Adolf Hitler himself.

Gas ChamberA sealed room where many Jews were

killed at once by inhaling gas.

GestapoThe secret state police of the German

Army

Hitler, AdolfLeader of the National Socialist German

Workers' Party.

HolocaustTerm made in the 1950’s that describes the murder and torture of over 6 million

Jews and about 3 million other “undesirables”.

JudenreinA term used to describe an area which has been "cleansed" or "purified" of all

Jews by deportation or murder.

JewsA person that follows the Jewish

community or culture.

Mein KampfAutobiography by Hitler himself that

states his ambitions, ideas, and plans for future Germany.

NaziName for members of the NSDAP,

National Socialist Democratic Workers Party, who believed in the idea of Aryan

supremacy.

PogromAn organized, state-sponsored attack.

SAStorm troopers, the terrorist branch of the

Nazi army, and the ones who helped Hitler get to his full power.

ScripPaper currency or tokens used as

evidence that the bearer was entitled to receive something in return.

SwastikaThe official symbol of the Nazis.

TorahThe first five books of the Hebrew Bible.

Zyklon BGas used to kill the Jews in the gas

chambers.