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Knowledge Base: Religious Studies The Holocaust Year 9 | Summer Term
3. Antisemitism
3.1
scapegoat
A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others.
3.2
Ghettos
Neighbourhoods of European cities in which Jews were permitted to live.
3.3
Nuremberg
Antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany in order to restrict Jewish freedoms.
3.4
persecution
To treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political beliefs.
1. Intro to The Holocaust
1.1 The Holocaust
1.2 Shoah
1.3 Antisemitism
1.5 prejudice
Also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. The Jewish name given to genocide of European Jews.
Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
1.4
discrimination
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability.
1.6
genocide
The systematic and widespread slaughter of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
1.7
Jew
A member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham.
1.8
Roma & Sinti
Largest European minority who have lived in Europe for over 1000 years. They enjoy a nomadic way of life.
Knowledge Builder
Books to read:
2. Pre-war Jewish life
2.1
Shtetl
The name given to a town/village in Eastern Europe where the population was almost entirely Jewish.
2.2 Yiddish
2.3 Hebrew
2.4 Orthodox Jews
2.7 Zionism
2.8 Yom Kippur
2.9 Rosh Hashanah
The first language of millions of Jews living in Eastern Europe. The ancient language of the Torah and of prayer.
Traditional Jews who are devoted to the study of the Torah.
A Jewish movement dedicated to establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The day of Atonement, a day of fasting.
Jewish New Year, the anniversary of creation.
Hear from
a Holocaust survivor
Listen to Elie Wiesel’s Night as an audio book
Research
The Holocaust
Encyclopedia
Learn about life in The Ghettos
2.5
Assimilated Jews
Jews who did not live separately from the non-Jewish community but had adopted the language, dress and culture of the non-Jewish society in which they lived.
2.6
Bund
A Jewish movement in Poland dedicated to bettering the conditions of the Jewish working class and celebrating a Yiddish culture.
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