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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Aktion | Operation (military) |
| Anschluss | The Nazi annexation of Austria (1938) |
| Appellplatz | Roll-call square |
| Betar | Revisionist Zionist youth organization |
| Blockälteste | Block leader |
| Bund deutscher Mädel (BDM) | League of German Girls |
| Canada | Warehouse in Birkenau used to sort belongings from newly-arrived transports |
| Effektenkammer | Property registry office (Auschwitz) |
| Einsatzgruppen/ Einsatzkommando | Mobile killing units of the SS that followed the German army into Poland and the Soviet Union |
| Gazeta Żydowska | Official newspaper of ghettos in the Generalgouvernement |
| Generalgouvernement | General government; name given to parts of Poland not incorporated into the Reich |
| Gestapo | Nazi State secret police. |
| Häftlingsselbstverwaltung | Prisoner self-government |
| Ha’no’ar ha’tsiyoni | Zionist youth; youth movement |
| Ha’shomer ha’tsa’ir | The Young guard; Zionist youth organization |
| Hitlerjugend | Hitler youth |
| Judenrat | Jewish Council; established in the Jewish ghettos on Nazi orders |
| Kapo | Leader of work commandos in the Nazi concentration camps |
| Kindertransport | The operation to evacuate children to Britain from Nazi Germany |
| Kristallnacht | Literally, 'Night of broken glass'; state-organised pogrom that took place throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9-10 November 1938 |
| Lager | Camp |
| Lagerälteste | Camp leader |
| Nazi Party | Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP); the political party led by Adolf Hitler, elected in 1933 |
| Notenschreiber | Music copyists in the camp orchestras |
| Partisan | A member of a military force, but not part of a regular army, fighting for the liberation of a country or group |
| Passover | A Jewish festival of freedom remembering when the Jews were led out of Egypt and out of slavery by Moses |
| Sturmabteilung (SA) | Storm Troopers or brown shirts; Nazi paramilitary group |
| Schallerabende | Communal sing-songs in the concentration camps |
| Scheine | Official work-permits issued in the ghettos |
| Schreibstube | Administration office |
| Schutzstaffel (SS) | Protection squad; Nazi elite unit |
| Sonderkommando | Literally, 'special commando'; prisoners forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria in the death camps |
| Sonderlager | Special camp for Jewish prisoners (Sachsenhausen) |
| Warthegau | Territorial administrative unit established in the Polish territories annexed to the Reich |
| Wehrmacht | The German army |
| Weimar Republic | At the end of the First World War, Germany was declared a republic after the Kaiser abdicated. Weimar in Germany was where the new constitution was written and the new republic was named after it. |
| Yiddish | A language incorporating German, Hebrew and Balto-Slavic elements, spoken by the majority of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Second World War |
| Zionism | Political movement working towards the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people |