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Holocaust 1 Vocab
Writing
Term | Definition |
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ghetto | the section of a city in which the Jews were forced to live |
racism | the practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of a race |
crematorium | furnaces where human bodies were burned |
deportation | the forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied lands to concentration camps |
selection | procedure used to determine who would live and who would die in death and labor camps. usually carried out by doctors. |
bericha | hebrew for "flight"; name given to those who aided the Jews in their escape to Palestine after the Holocaust. |
judenrat | head of Jewish council established by the Nazis in each ghetto |
genocide | the systematic elimination of a people or nation |
uebermenschen | Nazi term for "supermen", the racial ideal |
anti-semitism | discrimination or persecution of Jews |