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Vocabulary for Holocaust unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stereotype | N; an idea that many people have about a thing or a group that may often be untrue or only partly true; label, cast |
| scapegoat | N; a person or thing taking the blame for others; fall guy |
| prejudice | N; a favoring or dislike of something without good reason, unfriendly feelings directed at someone; prejudgment. bias |
| discrimination | N; treating of some people better than others without any fair or proper reason; prejudice |
| annihilate | V; to destroy completely; exterminate, obliterate |
| anti-Semitism | N; Hatred, hostilities toward Jews |
| Genocide | N; the deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| propaganda | N; an organized spreading of certain ideas; misinformation, half-truths |
| indifference | N; lack of feeling for or against something; coldness, unconcern, apathy |
| systematic | Adj; carried out or acting with thoroughness or regularity; organized, efficient |
| ghetto | N; a part of a city in which Jews were required to live |
| persecute | V; to cause to suffer because of a belief; hunt, maltreat |
| Bureaucratic | Adj; strictly following government procedure or routine; technical, routine |
| Holocaust | N; in Hebrew it means great wind and burning; it came to mean annihilation |
| racism | N; a type of prejudice based on biological race |
| by-stander | N; one who looks on and does nothing |
| segregation | N; isolation; separation from others |
| concentration camp | N; prison, labor, and killing facility used by the Nazis |
| Victim | N; an individual who suffers injury or is killed |
| rescuer | N; one who come to the aid of another |
| extermination | N; elimination; killing by extreme methods |
| Jew | N; someone of the Jewish faith and /or race |
| perpetrator | N; one guilty of committing a wrong |