Holocaust Vocabulary

A building or group of buildings for soldiers or prisoners to live in

• barracks
• suitcase
• escape
• synagogues

A tall smokestack which allows the gases to go into the atmosphere.

• house
• compressed
• chimney
• gas chambers

To be made smaller.

• escape
• compressed
• ethnicities
• seeping

Large prison used to hold people for political reasons.

• jail
• corpse
• confiscated
• concentration camp

having something taken away

• hysterically
• surroundings
• confiscated
• vandalized

a dead body

• corpse
• mummy
• humanity
• nightmare

get away, break out

• extermination
• escape
• intact
• quiver

belonging to a social group that has a common national, religious or cultural traditions.

• slaughtered
• ethnicities
• synagogues
• vandalized

An airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas as a means of execution.

• quiver
• synagogues
• extermination
• gas chamber

genocide, to get rid of by destroying completely

• slaughtered
• extermination
• vandalized
• confiscated