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82 Cards in this Set
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Brownshirts |
The Nazi militia created in 1921 that helped the Nazi party come to power but was eclipsed by the SS in 1934 |
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Video History Testimonial |
This is a videotaped account of a persons experiences of life before, during and after the holocaust |
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Survivor |
someone who escaped death at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators |
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Collaborator |
The act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying ones country |
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Concentration Camp |
Established by the Nazi regime, which eventually became a major instrument of terror, control, punishment, and killing preformed both through deliberate means as well as attrition by hunger and or disease |
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Santi-Roma |
The name of a nomadic people of Northwestern Europe, their origin can be traced back to india concentration camp |
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Reich |
The official name of the nazi regime |
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Discrimination |
the denial of justice and fair treatment by both individuals and institutions |
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Shoah |
Hebrew word meaning catastrophe |
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Pogrom |
Originally a russian word meaning devistation used to describe large scale acts of violence
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Homosexual |
A person who is emotionally and physically attracted to their own gender |
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Nazi |
short for Nationalsozialistiche |
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Holocaust |
The murder of approximately 6 million jews by the Nazis and their colaborators. |
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Jehovas Witness |
A religious sect that was organized on the us and had about 20000 members in Germany 1933 |
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Kristallnacht pogrom |
organized violence against Jews in Germany and Austria on Nov. 9-10 1938 |
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Gypsies |
Another name for certain communities of people living throughout Europe since the fifteenth century |
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Genocide |
Any act that intends to deestroy, i whole part, a national ethnic racial or religious group |
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European Jewry |
Over 9.2 million in Europe before WWII, by 1948 there were 3.7 million |
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Ally |
Someone who is a helpful association with another, often speaking out on a persons behalf unlike a bystander who chooses not to get involved |
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Swastika |
An ancient eastern symbol appropriate by the Nazis as their emblem |
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Anti-Judiasm |
Prejudice against jews because of their religious beliefs and practices |
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Bigotry |
An unreasonable or irrational attachment to negative stereotypes and prejudices |
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Cantor |
A role traditionally held by man within formal jewish religious worship which employs elaborate musical chanting while leading a congregation in prayer |
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Final Solution |
A Nazi code referring to their systematic plan to murder every jewish man, woman, and child in europe |
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Hitler Youth |
The Nazi partys compulsory (after 1939) youth movement, which emphasized physical training, Nazi ideaology, and absolute obedience to Hitler and the Nazi party |
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Socialism |
A theory or system of social organization that advocates the ownership of land, capital, industry, etc. by the community as a whole. |
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Racism |
The practice of discrimination, segregation, persecution, and domination of a group based on that groups race. |
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Kippah |
A skullcap or head covering worn by some Jews at all times, and other jews during prayer |
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Rassenkunde |
A term literally meaning "racial science" |
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Propaganda |
False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of the population |
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Caricature |
A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subjects distinctive features are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect |
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Crusades |
Military campaigns embarked upon in the name of christianity to recover the Holy Land from Muslim occupation during the Middle Ages |
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Discrimination |
The denial of Justice and fair treatment by individuals and institutions in many areas, including employment, education, housing, banking, and political rights. |
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Stereotype |
An oversimplified generalization about a person or group of people without regard for individuals difference |
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Scapegoat |
To blame an individual or group for something based on that person or groups identity when, in reality, the person or group is not responsible |
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Der Stumer |
the weekly newspaper published by Julius Streicher for 22 years beginning in may 1923, it denounced the Jews in crude vicious, and vivid ways |
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Dehumanization |
A political or social measure intended to change the manner in which a person or group of people are perceived, reducing the target group to objects or beings not worthy of human rights |
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Ku Klux Klan |
A secret society organized in Georgia in 1915 to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism |
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Nazi Ideology |
The Nazi system of beliefs... |
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Apathy |
A lack of interest or regard; indifference |
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Totalitarianism |
A racial dictatorship in which one political party or group maintains complete control |
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Reichtag |
The german parliament
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Democracy |
A system of power in which the supreme powe is vested in the people and exercised by them diretly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic elections |
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Concentration camps |
places established by the nazi regime, which eventually became a major instrument of terror, control, punishment, and killing performed through deliberate means as well as attrition by hunger and or disease |
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Weimar republic |
The period of german history from 1919-1933 |
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Magen David |
The shield of David |
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Refugee |
One who flees or is deported in search of safety, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution |
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Scapegoat |
To blame an individual or group for something based on that persons or groups identity when, in reality, the person or group is not responsible |
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Nuremberg Laws |
Racial laws put into efect by the german parliament on september 15, 1935 |
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BDJJ |
A jewish youth movement established in 1933 |
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Kosher |
Food that is permisable to eat under jewish dietary laws; can also be described as any other natural object that is fit for use according to Jewish Law |
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Bystander |
One who is present at an event or who nows about its occurrence without participating in it |
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Aryan |
A ratehr ambitious term the nazis primarily applied to people of Northern europe backround
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Discrimination |
The denial of justice and fair treatment by individuals and institutions in many areas, including employment, education, housing, banking, and political rights |
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Hitler Youth |
The Nazi Partys compulsory movement (after 1939) which emphasized physical training, Nazi Ideology, and absolute obedience to Hitler and the Nazi Party |
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Stereotype |
An oversimplified generalization about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences |
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Treaty of Versailles |
A peace treaty that was signed at the end of WWI |
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Communist |
A person who follows an ideological concept or system of society in which the collective community share ownership in resources and the means of production |
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Akiton |
A term used for anti-jewish operations carried out against jews under Nazi orders it was most commonly used for deportation and killing operations |
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yad Vashem |
The holocaust martyrs and heros remembrance authority in jerusalem |
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Gestapo |
The secret state police who were directly involved in imprementing the jews and other Nazi victims during the holocaust |
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Underground |
Any resistance organization devoted to undermining or overhtrowing a government or power |
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Vichy |
A gov. set up by the Nazis after they conquered France in the spring 1940 |
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Altruism |
Selfless regard or concern for the well-being of others |
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Perpetrator |
Someone who does something that is normally wrong or criminal |
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Collaborator |
The act of working jointly; in context of war, it is often an act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying ones country |
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Auschwitz-Birkenau |
A complex consisting of concentration, extermination, an labor camps in poland |
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Victim |
One who is targeted for persecution or death by another |
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Talmud |
The name of two collections of records of the discussions and admissions of Jewish law by scholars in various academies from 200-500 AD |
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Bystander |
one who is present at an event or who knows about its occurrence without participating |
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Rescue |
to deliver someone from danger or imprisonment |
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Knesset |
the israeli parliament |
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Communism |
An ideological concept or system of society in which a collective community shares ownership in resources and the means of production |
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Occupation |
The invasion, conquest, an control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces |
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Ally |
Someone who forms a helpful association with another, often by speaking out on that persons behalf |
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Common good |
Social conitions that help us fulfill our human potential |
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Sewardship |
responsible for Gods creation |
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solidarity |
we are our sisters an brothers keepers |
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subsidarity |
stresses limited gov role |
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love |
humans reflect their creator best when they love |
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abba |
father |
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right |
a claim we can make on others and society to live a full human life |
