Glossary
a
- Aktion
- Allies
- Anschluss
- antisemitism
- appeasement
- Aryan
- "asocials"
- Auschwitz
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Axis
b
- Babi Yar
- Balkans
- Baltic states
- bar mitzvah
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Battle of the Bulge
- Belzec
- Bergen-Belsen
- Bielski partisans
- Blitz
- Blitzkrieg
- Bolshevik
- Braun, Eva
- Buchenwald
c
- cantor
- Chamberlain, Neville
- cheder
- Chelmno
- Chiang Kai-Shek
- Churchill, Winston
- collective affidavit
- concentration camp
- Czerniakow, Adam
d
- D-Day
- Dachau
- death march
- displaced person (DP)
- Displaced Persons Act
- Drancy
- Dunkirk evacuation
e
- Eichmann, Adolf
- Einsatzgruppen
- Eisenhower, Dwight
- Ellis Island
- emancipation
- Evian Conference
- Exodus 1947
- expropriation
f
- Fabrikaktion
- fascism
- Final Solution to the Jewish Question
- Foehrenwald
t
- The Forward
f
- Frank, Hans
- Fuehrer
g
- Generalgouvernement
- genocide
- Gestapo
- ghetto
- gmina
- Göring, Hermann
- Gross-Rosen
- Grynszpan, Herschel
h
- Hasidism
- Heydrich, Reinhard
- HIAS
- Himmler, Heinrich
- Hindenburg, Paul von
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Hitler, Adolf
- Holocaust
- "Holocaust by bullets"
- Home Guard
i
- 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)
- Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- Jude
- "judenrein"
k
- Kaufering
- killing center
- Kindertransport
- Kovner, Abba
- Krakow, Poland
- Kripo (Criminal Police)
- Kristallnacht
l
- Law on Alteration of Family and Personal Names
- League of Nations
- Lebensraum
- Lodz, Poland
- Lublin District
- Luftwaffe
m
- Maccabees
- Majdanek
- Mandate Palestine
- Mao Zedong
- Mauthausen
- minyan
- Moldova
- Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
- Munich Agreement
- Mussolini, Benito
n
- National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)
- Nuremberg Race Laws
- Nuremberg trials
o
- Operation “Bagration”
- Operation “Barbarossa”
- Operation “Harvest Festival”
- Operation "Pied Piper"
- Operation “Reinhard”
- Oranienburg
p
- partisan
- Pétain, Henri-Philippe
- pogrom
- Police in the Nazi State
- Poniatowa
- Potsdam Conference
- Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
- Prussia
- Putsch
q
- quota
r
- Red Army
- Reform Judaism
- Reich
- Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
- Reichsmark
- Reichstag
- 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
- SD (Sicherheitsdienst)
- sealed
- Semitic
- shtetl
- SiPo (Security Police)
- Sobibor
- Sonderkommando
- 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
- Torah
- totalitarianism
- Trading with the Enemy Act
- transit camp
- Trawniki
- Treaty of Versailles
- Treblinka
- Truman, Harry S.
u
- UNRRA
- Upper Silesia
v
- V-E Day
- V-J Day
- Vichy France
w
- Wall Street Crash
- Wallenberg, Raoul
- Wannsee Conference
- war crimes
- War Refugee Board
- Warsaw, Poland
- Warsaw Ghetto
- Wehrmacht
- Weimar Republic
- Wessel, Horst
- Westerbork
- White Russia
- Wittenberg, Yitzhak
- Wittenberg, Yitzhak2
y
- yeshiva
z
- Zionism
- Zyklon B