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holocaust
definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prejudice | Opinion formed BEFORE facts are known. Found against hatred of religion or other races. |
| Anti-Semitism | Dislikes and persecutin of JEWS = Hostility or prejudice against JEWS |
| Aryan | A term used by the Nazis to mean a "MASTER RACE" |
| Genocide | The systematic MURDER of an ENTIRE political, cultural or religious group |
| Holocaust | The systematic, planned EXTERMINATION of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during WW2 |
| Reparations | the money and goods paid by the Allies after WW1 |
| Scapegoat | A person or group that bears the BLAME for mistakes or crimes of others. |
| Scapegoat | EXAMPLE: Hitler blamed the Jewsfor Germany's defeat in WWI |
| Nuremburg LAWS | Hitler created a LEGAL CODE excluded Jews from German society. |
| Nuremburg LAWS | EXAMPLE: No citizenship, No jobs, No school or universities, No movies, No library, No jewelry, No property, No money |
| Mein Kampf | Hitler's autobiography and political theories published in 1925. |
| Mein Kampf | Nazi Bible |
| Nazi | Name used to identify members of the NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY (not so good with people) |
| SwaSTIKA | Symbol of the Nazi Party |
| Third Reich | The Nazi government |
| Reichstag Fire | One of the two HOUSES (buildings) of German LEGISLATURE or PARLIMENT |
| Fuehrer | Title taken by Hitler |
| Fuehrer | German word for "LEADER" |
| Kristallnacht | Night of the Broken Glass = November 9 and 10, 1938 where Nazi police smashed Jewis synagogues, houses, and shops |
| Synagogue | Jewish church |
| Deportation | Forced REMOVAL of Jews in Nazi-occupied areas from their homes |
| Yellow Star | The SIX-POINTED Star of David made with yellow cloth and sewn on to Jewish clothes |
| Ghetto | An area of a city in which Jews were forced to live until they were transported to a concentration camp or death camp |
| Gestapo | The secret police = mainly responsible for the roundup of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries |
| SS officers | SchutzStaffel |
| SS officers | Members of Hitler's ELITE force of German storm trOOpers |
| Concentration camps | A prison CAMP where the Nazis sent the Jews = thousands existed throughout Germany and Nazi-controlled Europe |
| Auschwitz | LARGEST and most notorious of all the CONCENTRATION CAMPS |
| Crematorium | a large OVEN or furnace |
| Death camp | a CAMP whose basic purpose was to kill Jews |
| Gas Chamber | a room that was sealed off and airtight so that death could be induced through the USE OF GAS |
| Resistance | Acts of REBELLION and attempts = against Hitler's rule |
| Underground | A group organized in strict SECRECY among CITIZENS in a occupied country maintaining communication |
| Liberation | set free |
| Liberators | Soldiers who FREED the prisoners from concentration camps |
| Collective Responsibility | The ACT of holding (collecting) an entire group responsible for actions of any of its individual members. |
| Collective Responsibility | Lots of countries besides Germany were held ACCOUTABLE for what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust |
| Displaced Persons camp | Camps set up afer WW!! by the Allies to house Holocaust survivors who had no place to go |
| Nuremburg Trials | A SET OF TRIALS (tribunals) set up by the U.S., Britain and France to try high-ranking former Nazi leaders for their crimes against the Jews during the Holocaust |
| Righteous Among the Nations/Righteous Gentiles | A Christian honored in Israel for risking their life to save a Jewish person during the Holocaust |
| Kaddish | Jewish prayer mourning the dead |
| Elie's new name | Number A7713 tattooed on left arm = prison number |
| Elie Wiesel wants to spend all his time studying | Talmud and Jewish mysticism |
| Elie rebells against God after | viewing infants being tossed in a burning pit |
| Elie and his father get departed to | Auschwitz = a concentration camp |
| Elie's mother and 3 sisters get departed to | Birkenau = a death camp |
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jaynedishman
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