Glossary of special terms and abbreviations in the protocols
Alija/Alia (Hebrew): Jewish immigration to Palestine (from 1948 to Israel)
Appell (German): camp roll call
Appellplatz (German): site of the camp roll call
Arbeitslager (German): work camp
Aussenkommando (German): work unit operating outside the camp
Bauführer (German): construction leader
Baukommando (German): construction work unit
Betár (Hebrew): Brit Trumpeldor (Trumpeldor Association), right-wing Zionist organisation
Blockführer (German): block leader, an SS man supervising a given block
Blocksperre (German): block curfew
Blockältester (German): camp prisoner functionary, block supervisor
Brezsinka (Polish-Hungarian): term used by Hungarian prisoners for Sector BIIg of Birkenau (Auschwitz II), the warehouse camp (Effektenlager), called Kanada in the camp jargon
Capo or Kapo (Italian-Geman): prisoner functionary supervising work units
Chalutz or halutz (Hebrew): member of a Zionist youth organisation
Dörgemüse (German): camp soup, made out of dried vegetables
Eretz, Eretz Yisrael (Hebrew): land of Israel, the Jewish land of origin
Esskommando (German): camp work unit transporting food
Familienlager (German): family camp
Fillér (Hungarian): change of the Hungarian currency pengő
FKL (German): Frauen Konzentrationslager, women's concentration camp
GPU (Russian): State Political Directorate, Soviet political police
Hitlerjugend (German): German Nazi youth organisation
Häftlingskrankenbau (German): camp hospital for prisoners
Jewish Agency (English): the diplomatic representation (quasi-government) of the Zionist movement
Joint (English): American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewish aid organisation
Kanada (German): camp jargon term for Sector BIIg of Birkenau (Auschwitz II), the warehouse camp (Effektenlager)
KEOKH (Hungarian): National Central Authority for Controlling Foreigners, Hungarian internal authority that supervised the foreigners arriving to the country legally or illegally
Keren Hayesod (Hebrew): Zionist fund to support the aliya[LINK aliya]
Kommando (German): work unit
Kommandoführer (German): leader of the work unit
Lagerführer (German): commander of a camp or camp section
Lagerführerin (German): female commander of a camp or camp section
Lagerstrasse (German): "street" in between camp sections or blocks
Levente (Hungarian): 1. military training of 12-21-year-old boys in Hungary in the interwar period 2. young boy taking part in military training
Mizrahi (Hebrew): religious Zionist organisation
MOKTÁR (Hungarian): Hungarian National Central Savings Bank
Musulman: term of camp jargon for a lethally exhausted and starved prisoner
Musz (Hungarian): abbreviation of the term "labour service man"
Neolog: the branch of Judaism in Hungary that was ready to somewhat modernise the tradition and adapt its customs to the majority society
NKVD (Russian): Internal Commissariat, Soviet state security authority
Organisation Todt (German): German paramilitary work organisation
Pengő (Hungarian): Hungarian currency between 1926 and 1946
Persona grata (Latin): person in favour
Rapportführer (German): SS man supervising the roll calls
Rapportführerin (German): female SS overseer supervising the roll calls
Revier (German): camp hospital
Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew): Jewish New Year
SA (German): Sturmabteilung (storm troops), paramilitary mass organisation of the German Nazi party
Sauna: camp bathhouse in Birkenau for those deportees declared to be fit for work during the selections
Schonung (German): camp sick room
Schreiber (German): male prisoner functionary, scribe
Schreiberin (German): female prisoner functionary, scribe
Schutzbrief, Schutzpass (German): protective documents that were issued by the diplomatic corps of the neutral states for thousands of Hungarian Jews
Shomer/Hashomer Hatzair (Hebrew): left-wing Zionist youth organisation
Sonderlager (German): special camp
SS (German): Schutzstaffel (protective troops), elite armed organisation of the German Nazi party which-among other functions-also guarded the concentration camps
SS-Aufseherin (German): SS female overseer
Székely (Hungarian): Transylvanian Hungarian
Szochnut (Hebrew): Hebrew name for the Jewish Agency
Tattersaal (German): covered riding hall in Budapest, which served as a collection point of the Jews before deportation in the winter of 1944
Tisha Be-av (Hebrew): Jewish day of fasting, the day of mourning remembering the destruction of the Jerusalem temple
Transportführer (German): transport leader
Vitéz (Hungarian): right-wing Hungarian social organisation established by Regent Miklós Horthy gathering veterans of WWI, the members of which gained different benefits
Volksbund (German): pro-Nazi organisation of Hungarian citizens of German ethnicity in Hungary between 1938 and 1945
Volksturm (German): German paramilitary organisation, civil militia
Yom/Jom Kippur (Hebrew): Jewish holiday, the Day of Atonement
Zulag (German): all camp food that was put on bread (sausage, jam, etc.)
Zählappell (German): camp roll call
