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Brock Sociology Holocaust Quiz

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Anti-Semitism   hostility toward or discrimination against Jews  
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Aryan   in Nazi Germany, non-Jewish and non-Gypsy Caucasians.  
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Auschwitz   Largest Nazi death camp, located in Poland.  
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concentration camp   Areas establised to detain and if necessary, kill, enemies of the state.  
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crematory   am establishment containing a furnace for reducing dead bodies to ashes by burning  
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emaciate   to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin  
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genocide   The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.  
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Gestapo   The German Secret State Police  
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ghetto   A confined area of a city in which members of a minority group are compelled to live. The Jews were forced to live here during the beginning of the Holocaust.  
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Heinrich Himmler   Head of SS and Chief of German Police. In charge of the Gestapo, concentration camps.  
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Adolf Hitler   Fuhrer of Nazi movement; 1889-1945  
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Kristallnacht   Night of Broken Glass; German police invaded Jew's homes and businesses and stole their belongings.  
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Dr. Josef Mengele   SS physician assigned to Auschzwitz; notorious for "medical experiments" on inmates, especially twins and dwarves.  
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Swastika   Nazi symbol; used to mean "good luck."  
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Talmud   Jewish book of laws.  
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Torah   Jewish holy book. Contains the first five books of the Christian Bible. Aka the Five Books of Moses.  
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yellow star   Used by the Nazis during the Holocaust as a method of identifying Jews. The Jews were forced to wear these on their jackets and shirts.  
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What "Holocaust" means.   Sacrafice by fire  
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Nazi   A member of the National Socialist German Worker's Party during World War II  
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Jews   First monotheistic religion. Founded by Abraham.  
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Roma   Another word for gypsys.  
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Collaborators   Someone who helps someone else. In the Holocaust, these were people who helped the Nazis.  
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Final Solution   At the end of World War II, this was the plan to try to eleminate all of the Jews from the entire world.  
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Euthanasia Program   Literally means "assisted suicide". The Nazis used this program to kill people that they did not feel were fit to live such as the handicapped and homosexuals.  
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Tyranny   Unfair rule.  
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Persecute   To treat someone unfairly or to annoy them persistently.  
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Incarcerate   To put someone in jail.  
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Einsatzgruppen   Nazi mobile killing units. Soldiers would go from town to town killing all the Jews in each down.  
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Incinerate   To burn into ashes.  
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Liberate   To set free.  
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Blood Libel   An allegation, recurring during the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries, that Jews were killing Christian children to use their blood for the ritual of making unleavened bread. A red mold which occasionally appeared on the bread started this myth.  
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Death marches   Forced marches of prisoners over long distances and under intolerable conditions was another way victims of the Third Reich were killed.  
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Diaspora   a mass movement of a group of people from one place to another.  
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Fuhrer   German for leader  
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Joseph Goebbels   Nazi Propaganda Director  
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Kippa   Hebrew name for the skullcap Jews wear  
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Yamulka   Yiddish name for the skullcap Jews wear  
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Madagascar Plan   A Nazi policy that was seriously considered during the late 1930s and 1940s which would have sent Jews to an island off the southeast coast of Africa  
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Mitzvah   Hebrew word meaning "a good deed."  
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Nuremberg Trials   Trials of twenty-two major Nazi figures in Germany in 1945 and 1946 before the International Military Tribunal.  
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Nuremberg Laws   Deprived all Jews of their civil rights, and the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" made marriages and extra-marital sexual relationships between Jews and Germans punishable by imprisonment.  
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Perpetrators   Those who do something that is morally wrong or criminal  
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Rabbi   Leader of a Jewish congregation, similar to the role of a priest or minister.  
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Righteous Gentiles   Non-Jewish people who, during the Holocaust, risked their lives to save Jewish people from Nazi persecution.  
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Scapegoat   Person or group of people blamed for crimes committed by others.  
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Shoah /sho a/   The Hebrew word meaning "catastrophe," denoting the catastrophic destruction of European Jews during World War II.  
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Social Darwinism   A concept based on the idea of "survival of the fittest" applied to people. It states that some races are more fit to survive than others.  
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Synagogue /sin a gog/   Jewish house of worship, similar to a church.  
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Yiddish   A language that combines elements of German and Hebrew.  
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Zionism   Political and cultural movement calling for the return of the Jewish people to their Biblical home.  
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Zyklon B   (Hydrogen cyanide) Pesticide used in some of the gas chambers at the death camps.  
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