The Holocaust Word Search
A free The Holocaust word search you can play straight in the browser. The 12-word list draws on the terms and ideas of a school subject, hidden across a 15×15 grid in every direction. Drag through the letters to mark a word off.
Words to find: GENOCIDE, GHETTO, DEPORTATION, CONCENTRATION, NAZISM, ANTISEMITISM, RESISTANCE, LIBERATION, SYNAGOGUE, KRISTALLNACHT, EINSATZGRUPPEN, WAFFENSS.
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The Holocaust word list, defined
- GENOCIDE /ˈdʒɛnəˌsaɪd/ · noun
- The deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, or a substantial part of one. In international law, genocide is a precisely defined crime involving specific acts committed with the intent to destroy a protected group. Related: mass killing, extermination, annihilation, slaughter.
- GHETTO /ˈɡɛtəʊ/ (British), /ˈɡɛtoʊ/ (US) · noun, verb, adjective
- A ghetto is an urban neighborhood or settlement regarded as occupied by a socially excluded group, especially because of poverty, racial segregation, or discrimination. The term may also refer more broadly to the social condition of exclusion and concentrated disadvantage associated with such an area. Related: slum, tenement, poor quarter, shantytown.
- DEPORTATION /ˌdiːpɔːrˈteɪʃən/ · noun
- The act of expelling a foreigner from a country, typically by official or legal order, and sending them back to their own country. More broadly, the action of carrying or transporting something away. Related: expulsion, removal, banishment, exile.
- CONCENTRATION /ˌkɒnsənˈtreɪʃən/ · noun
- The action or power of focusing all one's attention or mental effort on a single thing. Also, the amount of a substance present in a given volume of another substance, especially in a solution. Related: focus, attention, absorption, application.
- RESISTANCE /rɪˈzɪstəns/ · noun
- Resistance is opposition to force, control, influence, or change, especially a deliberate refusal to comply or yield. In technical contexts, it denotes the opposition offered to motion, electrical current, disease, or another physical process. Related: opposition, defiance, refusal, protest.
- LIBERATION /ˌlɪbəˈreɪʃən/ · noun
- The act or process of freeing someone or something from confinement, control, oppression, or an unwanted condition. It also refers to the achievement of political independence, social equality, or freedom from an oppressive system. Related: release, freedom, emancipation, independence.
- SYNAGOGUE /ˈsɪŋɡəɡoʊ/ · noun
- A synagogue is a Jewish house of worship and, by extension, the congregation that gathers there for religious services. The term may also refer more broadly to the assembly or meeting of a Jewish congregation. Related: temple, meetinghouse, congregation, assembly.
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