World English Dictionary Ku Klux Klan  (ˈkuː ˈklʌks ˈklæn) — n

1. a secret organization of White Southerners formed after the US Civil War to fight Black emancipation 

and Northern domination 

2. 2. a secret organization of White Protestant Americans, mainly in the South, who use violence against Black people, Jewish people, and other 

minority groups [C19 Ku Klux,  probably based on Greek kuklos circle  + 

Klan clan ]

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Ku Klux Klan – circa 1920

KU KLUX KLAN – Feb., 2010, Georgia

Proud Mother and Child, 2010

The Next Generation

Symbols of the Ku Klux Klan

Holocaust• –noun • 1. a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. 

• 2. a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering. 

• 3. (upper-case “H”) the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews through execution, gassing, starvation,  among other means by the Nazis.

Nazia member of the National Socialist German Workers' political party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf 

Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural, 

economic, and political activities of the people, and promulgated belief in the supremacy of Hitler as Führer, aggressive anti-Semitism, the natural supremacy of the German people, and the establishment of Germany by superior force as a dominant world power. The party was officially abolished in 1945 at the conclusion of World War 

II.

an·ti-Sem·i·tism   

n. -  discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.

SCAPEGOAT

•noun - a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their 

place. 

Euphemism the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, 

harsh, or blunt. 

example -  the expression so substituted: “To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.” 

Nazi EUPHEMISMS

• “liquidate” = annihilate • “transport” = deportation to a concentration or death camp.

Propaganda1.  information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. 

2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc. 

“If you’re going to tell a lie, tell a big one. If you keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

-Dr. Joseph Goebbels Nazi Minister of Propaganda

Desensitize    to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in feeling through 

overexposure (to violence)

Kabbalahbook of Jewish 

mystical tradition based on an esoteric interpretation

 of The Bible

Kabbalist 1. an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters of the Jewish faith 

2. a scholar of the Jewish Kabbalah 

Synagogue a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.

2. an assembly or congregation of Jews for the purpose of religious worship.

Talmud

the collection of Jewish law and tradition

Rosh HashanahThe Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish 

New Year

Passovera Jewish festival that commemorates

the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual dinner

The Festival of Freedom

atonement -  reparation for a wrong or injury; to make amends.

Yom KippurDay of Atonement

a Jewish high holy day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tishri by abstinence from food and drink

and by the daylong recitation of prayers of repentance in the

synagogue.

Kaddish – prayer for the dead

Zionisma worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the 

state of Israel. 

Yellow StarStar of David

-labeling of the Jews by use of the Jewish badge 

Ghetto  a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live

Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw GhettoWladek Szpilman

The Pianist

Krakow GhettoSchindler’s List

Sighet GhettoElie Wiesel

Night

Cattle Cars

Swastika 1. a primitive religious symbol or ornament in the shape of a Greek cross, usually having the ends of the arms bent at right 

angles in either a clockwise or anticlockwise direction

2. this symbol with clockwise arms, officially adopted in 1935 as the emblem of Nazi Germany

S.S.(Schutzstaffel)

an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served 

as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. 

S.S.

GestapoThe German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and 

operations. Heinrich HimmlerHead of the Gestapo

Crematorium -  furnace for cremating. 

Auschwitz

Kommando - unit or command - the basic unit of organization of slave

labourers in Nazi concentration camps.

Sonder-Kommandowork units of Nazi death camp prisoners, composed

almost entirely of Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, forced into

guarding newly-arrived inmates, escorting them to gas chambers, searching the bodies & burning them.

Kapoa prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.

other targetedvictimsin

The Holocaust 

“Gypsi”220,000- 270,000 murdered

Roma & Sinti

Persons with Disabilities200,000 - 250,000 murdered

Homosexuals

5,000 – 15,000 murdered

Jehovah’s Witnesses2,000 – 5,000 murdered

Intellectuals“Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.”

-Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propoganda

  

Dr. MengeleOne of the SS physicians who supervised the 

selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a 

forced laborer, but is far more infamous for performing grisly 

human experiments on camp inmates.

Angel of Death

Arbeit Macht Frei“Work Will Make You Free”

Selectionthe process of

“selecting” prisoners for work details or

for the gas chamber

                                                                                                                                                                         “To 

hear a witness is                                                                                                                       to become a 

witness oneself.”                                                                                                                                                       -Elie Wiesel

You are  my witness.Do not stand idly by.