Będzin Exhibit Vocabulary Words

Tier 2 and 3

Arranged by Common Core Standard Tiers

Tier 2 Words (words to be used across disciplines)

Discrimination

Unfair treatment of different people or things

Synagogue

The center of Jewish religious and cultural life

Memoir

A biography written by an individual about their lives

Zionism

Movement for creation and protection of the Jewish nation

Orthodox

Following what is traditionally accepted as right or true

Segregation

Action of setting someone or something apart from other people or things

Deportation

Forced relocation of an individual

Liquidation

The removal of all Jews from a particular area

Resilience

The act to recover quickly from difficulties

Liberation

Act of setting someone free from imprisonment

Concentration camps

Prison camps

Labor camps

Camps where people were forced to work

Tier 3 Words (words specific to the Holocaust and the Będzin Exhibit)

Będzin

Jewish community in southern Poland on the banks of the rivers Brynica and Przemsza

pronounced “ben·gin” (like “engine” preceded by a “b”)

Antisemitism

Prejudice against or hatred of Jews

Holocaust

Destruction on a mass scale

Nuremberg Race Laws

Laws that revoked German citizenship for Jewish people and defined a “Jew” as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents

Kristallnacht

Night of Broken Glass: Wave of anti-Jewish violence and destruction of Jewish property throughout Germany

Nazis

Members of a political organization following an ideology of antisemitism

Ghettos

Districts into which Nazis forced the Jewish population to live under harsh conditions

Jewish Council, or Judenrat

Councils created by Nazi Germany to control the Jewish population in the ghettos

Auschwitz

The largest death camp created by Nazi Germany near the Polish town of Oswiecim

Wannsee Conference

Conference that discussed the implementation of “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” (the mass murder of European Jews)

Extermination camps

camps built By Nazis for the sole purpose of murdering people on a massive scale

Death marches

At the end of World War II, the remaining Jewish population was forced on brutal marches across Europe away from the advancing