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anti-semitism |
discrimination or persecution of Jews |
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appelplatz |
roll call inside concentration camp/death camp |
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Aryan |
"race" Nazis believed to be superior. It has no biological validity |
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Bericha |
Hebrew for "flight." Name given to those who aided Jews in their escape to Palestine (now called Israel) after the Holocaust. |
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concentration camp |
place where political prisoners were kept |
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crematorium |
furnaces where human bodies were burned |
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deportation |
forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied territory to concentration camps |
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Death camps |
Nazi centers of murder and extermination |
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Death Marches |
marches imposed upon prisoners by the Nazis in order to keep them from liberation by the Allied forces |
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Einsatzgruppen |
SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the Soviet Union |
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euthanasia |
the policy of "mercy Killing" of the old and handicapped |
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Final Solution |
Nazi term for the total annihilation of Jews in Europe |
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Genocide |
systematic elimination of a people or nation |
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Gestapo |
German Secret State Police |
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ghetto |
section of a city where Jews were forced to live |
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Juden |
German for Jews |
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Judenrat |
head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in each Jewish ghetto |
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Judenrein |
German term that means "pure" or "clean" of Jews |
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Kristallnacht |
Nazi-organized riot against the Jews on Nov. 9-10, 1938..."Night of the Broken Glass" |
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Pogroms |
organized act of persecution or massacre of specific group of people |
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scapegoat |
innocent person blamed for the problems of others |
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selection |
procedure used to determine who would live or die in death and labor camps. Usually carried out by doctors |
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uebermenschen |
Nazi term for "supermen" or the racial ideal |
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Zyklon-B |
gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers at the death camps |
