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Holocaust

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. .

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Holocaust

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  1. 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.

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

  3. 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.”

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

  5. 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.

  6. Desensitize to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in feeling through overexposure (to violence)

  7. Kabbalahbook of Jewish mystical tradition based on an esoteric interpretation of The Old Testament

  8. Kabbalist1. an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters 2. a student of the Jewish Kabbalah

  9. 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.

  10. Talmudthe collection of Jewish law and tradition

  11. Rosh HashanahThe Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year

  12. 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

  13. Zionisma worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.

  14. Yellow StarStar of David-labeling of the Jews by use of the Jewish badge

  15. Ghettoa section of a city in which all Jews were required to live

  16. Warsaw Ghetto

  17. Cattle Cars

  18. S.S.(Schutzstaffel)an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force.

  19. S.S.

  20. Crematorium - furnace for cremating.

  21. Auschwitz

  22. Kaddish – prayer for the dead

  23. Kommando - unit or command - the basic unit of organization of slave labourers in Nazi concentration camps.

  24. Sonder-Kommandoguarding newly-arrived inmates, escorting them to gas chambers, searching the bodies & burning them.

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

  26. Gypsy

  27. 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

  28. Angel of Death

  29. ArbeitMachtFrei“Work Will Make You Free”

  30. Selectionthe process of “selecting” prisoners for work details or for the gas chamber

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