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15 Cards in this Set
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Antisemitism |
Prejudice against or hatred of Jews. |
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Genocide |
Systematic killing of a specific group of people. |
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Aryan |
Nazi "master race". Non Jewish, Caucasian people with Northern-European features. |
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Concentration Camp |
Labor camps set up by the Nazis to house political prisoners or people they considered to be "undesirable." Prisoners were made to work like slaves and many died as a result of starvation, disease, or beatings. |
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Gestapo |
German Police known for their brutality. |
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Ghetto |
A section of a city in which all Jews were forced to live temporarily. |
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Kristallnacht |
November 9, 1938, a night of Nazi-planned terror throughout Germany and Austria, when Jews were attacked and arrested and their property destroyed. |
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Nazi |
A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party under Hitler from 1933-1945. |
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Judaism |
The religion of the Jews. |
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Prejudice |
An unfavorable opinion formed beforehand without knowledge, thought, or reason. |
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Synagogue |
Jewish building for religious worship. |
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Adolf Hitler |
German dictator and leader of the Nazi Party. Responsible for the death of 6 million Jewish people. |
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Crematorium |
A building in the camps that contained the ovens, where the bodies of victims were burned. The term is sometimes used to refer to the ovens themselves. |
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Dr. Josef Mengele |
Infamous Nazi doctor of Auschwitz who tortured, killed, and experimented on prisoners. |
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The Romas/Gypsies |
An Ethnic group originating from India who were considered social outcasts by Nazis. |
