The Holocaust

The Holocaust was an attempt by the Nazis to destroy the Jewish people.

It was the only time in history that an attempt was made to get rid of the Jewish people.

Anti- semitism was the hatred of the Jews. They were economic competitors and political scapegoats.

Adolf Hitler was a powerful speaker who started the Nazi party and hated the Jews. He was an absolute dictator.

Jewish life was normal before the Holocaust. Jews were full citizens and had jobs and families.

Jews lived in Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, and Romania, but Poland and The Soviet Union were where most Jews lived.

The persecution started in 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were passed.

Kristallnacht was when rioting began. It is also called the Night of Broken Glass. Jewish homes and synagogues were burned. This event took place on Nov. 9-10, 1938.

They found the Jews by conducting a census that gave personal information. Also, locals would report Jewish families in the neighborhood.

A ghetto was a small walled in area where Jews were forced to live. These were the poorest areas. Many died from the conditions of the area because it was very unsanitary. Jewish people were not allowed to take their possessions with them.

The "Final Solution" refers to the code words used by Nazis referring to the destruction of the Jewish people.

The Nazis gathered Jews and anyone else who was undesirable (both racially and socially) in these camps

Jews who were strong enough had to rise early and do heavy work at these camps.

The extermination camps were equipped for mass murder of Jews.

Partisan fighters were Jews that were resistance fighter and were often are numbered and weak. Spiritual resistance occurs when religious practices of schooling took place secretly.

Some people did try to help the Jews. These people were known as righteous Gentiles because they risked their own lives to hide the Jews. The people in Denmark save 7000 Jews by sending them to Sweden.

The war ended in 1945 in Europe. 11 million people were killed out of this 6 million were Jews.

The Nuremberg trials were set up by the allies to trial people who were part of the "final solution".

The survivors went home and found local citizens living in their houses and families and friends dead. Displaced persons camps were stab list so they could start a new life. Most went to Israel.

Nations that joined the war against Nazi Germany, including the US and Great Britain. It was a total of 26 nations.

Prejudiced toward Jews

Term used by naughty to describe the German people as the "superior" race - Caucasian, blue-eyed, blonde hair, fair skinned, tall.

Prime minister, head of the government

Prison camps built to hold Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, medical prisoners, resistors, and anyone the nausea considered socially or racially undesirable.

Coined in 1933, it mean "liquidation of the people" - racial, political, or cultural group

Leader of the third Reich, chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945. Committed suicide before the war ended.

Term used for the national Socialist German workers party, a radical anti-Semitic political party formed in 1919 and headed by Hitler from 1921-1945

Laws formulated in 1935 which stripped the Jewish people in Germany of their civil rights and restricted their political and social life.

Nazi insignia - good luck symbol, also called hooked crap