Hanukkah Menorah

1. pogrom- The word pogrom means a series of attacks on a Jewish community: this word was derived from the Russian word for “devastation.”
2. capitulation-Capitulation is a set of terms compromising an accord between governments; also taking the action of surrendering.
3. rations- Rations are set grants of necessities.
4. Black market- Black marketing is the action of selling goods at an illegal price and illegitimate buying of these products.
5. guilders- Guilders are silver coins equal to the value of a dollar; guilders were the currency of the Netherlands before the Euro was adopted.
6. curfew- Curfew is a specified time in the evening for which certain policies apply.
7. menorah- A menorah is for the use of on Hanukkah a Jewish festival;

Winston Churchill (Do not discuss the American writer) Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII.
47. Auschwitz- Auschwitz, established in 1940 originally as a concentration camp then became an extermination camp in 1942, was the name for the extermination/concentration camp in Silesia, Poland.
48. Hanukkah- Hanukkah is a period of 8 days in December when Jewish people light candles in their home to remember an important time in their religion when a temple was given back to their people.
49. Gandhi- Gandhi was a political and religious leader in India. Gandhi was an important in his attempts to unite the Muslims and Hindus. He often did hunger strikes to be heard by governments. He was assassinated by a Hindu extremist
50. Adolph Hitler- Adolf Hitler was the leader of Third German Reich. Through Adolf Hitler’s chauvinistic philosophy he murdered over six million Jews and in the process started WWII.
51. Nazi- Nazi, characterized by a centralist and authoritarian structure, was founded on January 5, 1919, in Germany. The policy for Nazis was based on racial, militaristic, anti-Semitic and chauvinistic policies.
52. Jews- Jews are people who belong to the Judaism culture or are of Jewish ancestry/

The Final Solution- The Final Solution is defined as Hitler’s plan to eliminate all Jews.
63. Zyklon B- Zyklon B is the commercial name for hydrogen cyanide which produced by the firm DEGESCH and controlled by I. G. Farben. In the form of pellets in air-tight containers, Zyklon B was delivered to the camps. There in the camps when the pellets were exposed to air they turned into a deadly gas that would suffocate victims within minutes.
64. Hitler Youth- Hitler Youth was the youth organization of the Nazi Party in Germany to teach them the Nazi’s ways. It was made of young males aged 14 to 18 to teach them military tactics. The girls section was the League of German Girls they were taught how to be homemakers.
65. Star of David- During the Holocaust, Jews were required to where the Star of David. The Star of David is a six-pointed star emblem.
66. Shavuot (Pentecost) - Shavuot is also known as the Festival of First Fruits, observed 50 days from the day the first bundle of grain was offered to the priests.
67. BBC- BBC stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
68. Bolsheviks- When the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Party split into two groups in 1903 the more minority group was called Bolsheviks the other group was called