, located in the Lublin District, general government where at least 200,000 Jews were murdered through carbon monoxide gas.

Anschluss, "Joining together," annexation. On March 12, 1938, Hitler annexed Austria to Germany

, Systematic prejudice against Jews. Notice the absence of a hyphen (-); there has never been any such thing as "Semitism." The term "antisemitism" is, properly one [..]

, In the Nazi ideology, the pure, superior Germanic (Nordic, Caucasian) race.

, The city of Auschwitz, Poland, located in southwestern Poland, was the site of one of the largest of the Nazi extermination camps. The camp was expanded in August, 1942. Camp II was named Auschwitz- [..]

, A deep ravine outsize the Ukrainian city of Kiev, on the Dnieper River where the Einsatzgruppen killed and buried 34,000 Jews in one or two days (September 29-30, 1941).

, Death Camp located in the Lublin District of Poland. More than 600,000 Jews were gassed at Belzek between 1941 and 1943.

, "lightning war," used to describe the speed, efficiency and intensity of Germany's military attack against their opponents.

, concentration camp established in 1937 between Frankfurt and Leipzig in Germany. While it was not a major extermination center, it was equipped with gas chambers and crematoria. More than 100,000 pr [..]

, a socialist movement among Jews in the Pale of Settlement in western Russia in the late 1800's. The Bundists supported Jewish linguistic and political autonomy. Their nationalism was cultural r [..]