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Daniel's Story
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| annihilate | kill in large numbers |
| anti-Semitism | the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people |
| boycott | refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with |
| concentration camp | a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) |
| console | give moral or emotional strength to |
| crematory | a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes |
| decreed | fixed or established especially by order or command |
| deportation | the act of expelling a person from their native land |
| devastate | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly |
| discrimination | unfair treatment of a person or gro up on the basis of prejudice |
| disoriented | having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or person |
| disperse | cause to separate |
| elite | selected as the best |
| emigrate | leave one's country of residence for a new one |
| gas chamber | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals |
| genocide | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group |
| Gestapo | the secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist met |
| ghetto | formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live |
| harass | annoy continually or chronically |
| Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945) |
| humiliate | cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of |
| intervene | get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force |
| intimidation | the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something |
| liberate | grant freedom to; free from confinement |
| Lodz | a large city of central Poland |
| looting | plundering during riots or in wartime |
| momentum | an impelling force or strength |
| Nazi | a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party |
| Palestine | an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism |
| persecution | the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) |
| pogrom | organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews) |
| ration | a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) |
| resistance | group action in opposition to those in power |
| stereotype | treat or classify according to a mental stereotype |
| synagogue | (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation |
| vermin | any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroach |
| holocaust | an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire) |
| bizarre | conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual |
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