Allies

(noun) The nations fighting Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II; primarily the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.

annihilation

 (noun) complete and utter destruction

aryan

 (noun) A term for peoples speaking the language of Europe and India. In Nazi racial theory, a person of pure German "blood." The term "non-Aryan" was used to designate Jews, part-Jews and others of supposedly inferior racial stock.

Aryan Race 

(noun) "Aryan" was originally applied to people who spoke any Indo-European language. The Nazis, however, primarily applied the term to people of Northern European racial background. Their aim was to avoid what they considered the "worst of the German race" and to preserve the purity of European blood.

Auschwitz 

(noun) Concentration and extermination camp in upper Silesia, Poland, 37 miles west of Krakow. Established in 1940 as a concentration camp, it became an extermination camp in early 1942. Eventually, it consisted of three sections: Auschwitz I, the main camp; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp; Auschwitz III (Monowitz), the I.G. Farben labor camp, also known as Buna. In addition, Auschwitz had numerous sub-camps.

Axis

(noun) the Axis powers originally included Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan who signed a pact in Berlin on September 27, 1940. They were later joined by Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia.

Betar

 (noun)  A Zionist political party in Poland during the 1930s. 

b’richa

(noun) The organized and illegal mass movement of Jews throughout Europe following World War II.

British White Paper of 1939:

(noun) British policy of restricting immigration of Jews to Palestine.

Buchenwald

  (noun) A Nazi concentration camp near Weimar, Germany.

bystander

(noun) One who is present at some event without participating in it.

Cheder

(noun) Jewish elementary school (also spelled heder).

Chelm

(noun) One of the oldest Jewish communities in Poland.

commandant

 (noun) a commanding officer of a military organization

Dachau:

(noun)  The first Nazi concentration camp established by the Nazis. Located near Munich, Germany

death camps:  

 (noun) Nazi extermination centers where Jews and other victims were brought to be killed as part of Hitler's Final Solution.