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English Vocab #1
Quiz for Friday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allies | Def: Led by the U.S, Great Britain and the Soviet Union joined forces to rebel against the Axis powers. |
| Anti-Semitism | Def: Irrational prejudice, discrimination against Jews;dislike, hatred and persecution of Jews |
| Auschewitz - Birkenau | Def In Poland near Krakow, largest death camp. Millions were killed. 10,000+ slave laborers industrial complexes. Auschwitz II consisted of a huge slave labor camp complex where worked serviced I.G Farbencompany and manufactured Bunda, a synthetic rubber |
| Axis | Def: Powers of Germany, Italy and Japan and their allies |
| Bergen - Belsen | Def: Northern German concentration camp for detainment of prisoners of war and other "exchangeable" prisoners. Conditions became worse after war and 34,168 people perished from disease and malnutrition. Liberated by Allied troops in 1945 spring |
| Concentration Camps | Prison camps for Jews, Gipsies, political and religious opponents, resistance fighters, homosexuals, others "enemies of he state". Died starvation, disease, hard labor exhaustion. Origin comes British policy "concentrating" South African rebels: Boer War |
| Death Camps | Def: Facilities constructed to mechanize and speed up the killing process as set forth in The Final Solution. All six death camps were located in Poland. |
| Dutch Opekta Company | Def: Otto Fran's business, which made pectin,a powdered fruit extract used to make jam |
| Genocide | Def: Deliberate, systematic murder of an entire culture, ethinic, racial or religious group |
| Gestapo | Def: The secret police of the Third Reich, which used terror and torture to eliminate political opposition in Germany. The Gestapo also orchestrated the arrest and deportation of Jews |
| Ghettos | Def: Areas of cities in eastern Eurpoe in which Jews were forced to live in extreme, overcrowded conditions with little food, medicine, heat and sanitation. In 1941, ghetto inhabitants were sent to concentration and death camps. |
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