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Holocaust Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Aryan | a member of the subgroup of Indo-European speakers ancestral to speakers of Indo-Aryan and Iranian languages. |
Ghetto (WW2) | the Jewish quarter in a city. |
Refugee | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. |
Genocide | the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. |
Antisemitism | hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people. |
Torah | (in Judaism) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch). |
Bias | prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. |
Holocaust | the genocide of European Jews during World War II committed by Nazi Germany. |
Mischling | a pejorative legal term which was used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of mixed "Aryan" and non-Aryan, such as Jewish, ancestry as they were classified by the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935. |
Scapegoat | a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency. |