Glossary
a
- Aktion
- Allies
- America First Committee (AFC)
- American Nazi Party
- americanization
- Anschluss
- antisemitism
- appeasement
- Aryan
- Ashkenazi
- "asocials"
- assimilation
- Auschwitz
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Auschwitz Protocols
- Austria-Hungary
- authoritarianism
- Axis
b
- Babi Yar
- Balkans
- Baltic states
- bar mitzvah
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Battle of the Bulge
- Belzec killing center (Poland)
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (Germany)
- Bielski partisans
- Blitz
- Blitzkrieg
- Bolshevik
- Braun, Eva
- Buchenwald concentration camp (Germany)
c
- cantor
- Chamberlain, Neville
- chauvinism
- cheder
- Chelmno killing center (Poland)
- Chiang Kai-Shek
- Christian Front
- Churchill, Winston
- collective affidavit
- Communism
- concentration camp
- convalescent
- Czerniakow, Adam
d
- D-Day
- Dachau concentration camp (Germany)
- death march
- demobilization
- displaced person (DP)
- Displaced Persons Act
- Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA)
- Drancy transit camp (France)
- Dunkirk evacuation
- dysentery
e
- East Prussia
- Eichmann, Adolf
- Einsatzgruppen
- Eisenhower, Dwight
- Ellis Island
- emancipation
- eugenics
- Evian Conference
- Exodus 1947
- expropriation
f
- Fabrikaktion
- fascism
- Final Solution to the Jewish Question
- Foehrenwald DP camp (Germany)
- Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter
- The Forward
- Franco, Francisco
- Frank, Hans
- Free French Forces
- Fuehrer
g
- Generalgouvernement
- genocide
- German American Bund
- Gestapo
- ghetto
- gmina
- Göring, Hermann
- greenhorn
- Gross-Rosen concentration camp (Poland)
- Grynszpan, Herschel
h
- Hasidism
- Heydrich, Reinhard
- "Holocaust by bullets"
- HIAS
- High Holidays
- Himmler, Heinrich
- Hindenburg, Paul von
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan)
- Hitler, Adolf
- Holocaust
- Home Guard
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956
i
- immigration visa
- Imperial Japan
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- International Refugee Organization (IRO)
- International Settlement Shanghai
- Internment of Japanese Americans
- Iron Cross
- Iron Guard
j
- Jehovah's Witness
- Jewish badge
- Jewish Council (Judenrat)
- Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB)
- Jewish summer camp
- Jewry
- Johnson-Reed Act
- Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- Jude
- "judenrein"
k
- Kaufering concentration camp (Germany)
- killing center
- Kindertransport
- Kovner, Abba
- Krakow, Poland
- Kripo (Criminal Police)
- Kristallnacht
l
- Law on Alteration of Family and Personal Names
- League of Nations
- Lebensraum
- Lindbergh, Charles
- Lodz, Poland
- Lublin District
- Luftwaffe
m
- Maccabees
- Majdanek concentration camp (Poland)
- malaria
- Mandate Palestine
- Mao Zedong
- Mauthausen concentration camp (Austria)
- minyan
- Moldova
- Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
- Munich Agreement
- Mussolini, Benito
n
- National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)
- nationalism
- Nazi Germany
- New Deal
- Nuremberg Race Laws
- Nuremberg trials
o
- Operation “Bagration”
- Operation “Barbarossa”
- Operation “Harvest Festival”
- Operation "Pied Piper"
- Operation “Reinhard”
- Oranienburg concentration camp (Germany)
- Orthodox
p
- partisans
- Pétain, Henri-Philippe
- pogrom
- Police in the Nazi State
- Poniatowa concentration camp (Poland)
- Potsdam Conference
- Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
- Prussia
- Putsch
q
- quota
r
- Red Army
- Reform Judaism
- Reich
- Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
- Reichsmark
- Reichstag, Berlin (Germany)
- reparations
- restitution
- Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, Hongkew, Shanghai
- Roma and Sinti
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Rosenstrasse Demonstration
- Rosh Hashana
- Rumkowski, Mordechai Chaim
s
- SA (Sturmabteilung)
- Sabbath
- Sachsenhausen concentration camp (Germany)
- Salazar, António de Oliveira
- SD (Sicherheitsdienst)
- sealed
- Semitic
- shtetl
- SiPo (Security Police)
- Sobibor killing center (Poland)
- Sonderkommando
- Sosúa, Dominican Republic
- Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)
- SS (Schutzstaffel)
- St. Louis
- Stalin, Joseph
- State of Israel
- sterilization
- Sudetenland
- suffrage
- Szenes, Hannah
t
- T4 “euthanasia” program
- tallis
- Theresienstadt ghetto/concentration camp (Bohemia and Moravia) [Terezin, Czechia]
- Torah
- totalitarianism
- Trading with the Enemy Act
- transit camp
- Transnistria (Moldova)
- Trawniki concentration camp (Poland)
- Treaty of Versailles
- Treblinka killing center (Poland)
- Trujillo, Rafael
- Truman, Harry S.
- typhoid fever
- typhus
- tzadik
u
- UNRRA
- Upper Silesia (Poland)
v
- V-E Day
- V-J Day
- Vichy France
w
- Wall Street Crash
- Wallenberg, Raoul
- Wannsee Conference
- war crimes
- War Refugee Board
- Warsaw, Poland
- Wehrmacht
- Weimar Republic
- Wessel, Horst
- Westerbork transit camp (Netherlands)
- White Russia
- Wittenberg, Yitzhak
- World Bank
- World War I
- World War II
y
- yeshiva
- Yiddish
z
- Zionism
- Zyklon B