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The Holocaust
Term | Definition |
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Holocaust | The Nazi's attempt to kill all Jews under their control. Six million Jews had been killed in the process as well as five million other people they considered inferior. |
Nuremberg Laws | Set of Laws that denied German citizenship to Jews, banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews and Segregated Jews at every level of society |
Kristallnacht | Also known as "The Night of the Broken Glass." After a Jewish refugee killed a German diplomat in Paris, Nazi officials attacked Jews |
Genocide | Willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
Concentration Camp | A Camp where they put jews and other prisoners in a camp where they were slaved and were eventually killed |
Death Camp | A facility where prisoners (mainly Jews) were systematically exterminated. The largest death camp was Auschwitz in southern Poland. |
War Refugee Board | A program that President FDR established whcih worked with the Red Cross to save thousands of Eastern European Jews, especially in Romania Hungary. |
Anti-Semitism | Prejudice and Hostility against Jews |
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