Holocaust/Final Solution

Systematic killing or extermination of an entire people for racial or ethnic reasons

A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II.

A mindset that people of Jewish heritage were inferior to other races; prejudice and discrimination as well

Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.

Field of science that focuses on the improvement of genetic features of human populations through selective breeding and sterilization; based on the idea that it is possible to distinguish between superior and inferior elements of society

conference where the top-ranking German officials discuss the "Jewish Question" of what to do with all of the Jews and came up with the "Final Solution" which was to exterminate all Jews in Germany

Entrusted by Hitler with administration of the "Final Solution" to the Jewish Question. Head of SS (Gestapo) which oversaw the Death Camps where approximately 6 million Jews and others were murdered

German physician known as the "Angel of Death" of Auschwitz. Known for his medical experimentation, especially on twins, and his decisions as to who would die. He collected their eyes as symbols of his research.

the codename given to the secretive Nazi plan to mass murder European as well as most Polish Jews in the General Government district. The operation marked the deadliest phase of the Holocaust with the introduction of extermination camps.

A Nazi extermination camp in Poland. Established at the end of 1941, it was the first of the Nazi extermination camps employing carbon monoxide gas vans as the main method of killing.

Nazi extermination camp in Poland; the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and others were killed there.

Treblinka, established in 1941 as a forced labor camp for those accused of crimes. Within a year of opening what would be referred to as Treblinka I, a second camp, Treblinka II was built that would become a critical link in the Third Reich's plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Treblinka II, would serve as an elimination center for the Jews of central Europe and one of the main extermination centers of the Nazi regime.

First concentration camp to be liberated by the Allies; also used temporarily as an extermination camp