Latin for a belief that the Church has replaced the Jews in all of God’s purposes.

areas inhabited by Germans in Czechoslovakia

SA, para-military brownshirts

in killing centers, Sonderkommandos consisted of those prisoners selected to remain alive as forced laborers to facilitate the killing process, particularly the disposal of corpses.

a political movement of the left; lost power to Communists in Russia in 1917.

a Jewish settlement in Eastern Europe

Hebrew for catastrophe, destruction; a Biblical term used to describe the mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis

Hebrew for Surviving Remnant, a Biblical term for Jewish DP’s of postwar Europe.

prisoners were selected by SS to hard labor or extermination; in concentration camps they were selected upon arrival as well as to make place for new prisoners

an SS agency which served as the political intelligence service of the Nazi party and, later, of the German Reich. The SD also claimed to be the repository of the intellectual elite of the Nazi SS. The SD played a central role in carrying out the Holocaust. All key departments of the Security Police were commanded by SD officers.

SS, originally Hitler’s personal bodyguard. It later took charge of political intelligence gathering, the German police and the central security apparatus, the concentration camps, and the systematic mass murder of Jews and other victims.

the principal Nazi concentration camp for the Berlin area.

world government of the Romans 27 BC – 400 AD.

Also called the Blood Libel; accusing Jews of murdering Gentiles to use their blood and bodies to ritualistic purposes, such as baking the special unleavened Matzah bread for the Jewish Passover, known as Pesach

Rescuers, who risked their lives, or in the case of diplomats, their careers, have been recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among The Nations. This is a Talmudic term.

a Nazi euphemism for deportation and murder.

Those who try to help a victim or potential victims of atrocities. During the Holocaust rescuers hid those who were persecuted; offered food or shelter; gave false ID cards and undertook other such actions.

A belief that the Church has replaced the Jews in all of God’s purposes.

Headquarters of the Commander of the Security Police and SD. Included the central offices of the Gestapo, the Kripo, and the SD. Commanded by Reinhard Heydrich and, later, Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

a German civilian occupation region that included the Baltic States and most of Belarus.

German State or Territory and Government

the army of the Soviet Union.

escape routes of Nazi war criminals via Italy or Spain to South America

laws to separate the Jews (and some others) from the Aryans by making them second class citizens due to their racial identities.