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Holocaust Vocab 3

TermDefinition
discrimination the denial of justice and fair treatment by both individuals and institutions in many arenas, including employment, education, housing, banking, and political rights. Discrimination is an action that can follow prejudicial thinking.
dehumanization as a political or social measure, dehumanization is intended to change the manner in which a person or group of people are perceived, reducing the target group to objects or beings not worthy of human rights.
bias unreasonably hostile feelings or opinions about a social group; prejudice.
antisemitism Prejudice against Jews, because of their beliefs or their group membership (ethnicity), also on the belief that Jews are a race. Nazi antisemitism was racial in nature; Jews were viewed as racially inferior to Aryans and destructive of the world order.
Gypsies A collective term often used for Sinti and Roma communities living throughout Eastern Europe since the fifteenth century. They were considered an asocial element by the Nazis and persecuted relentlessly.
collaborator to cooperate, usually willingly, with an enemy nation, especially with an enemy occupying one's country.
Gestapo The Nazi Secret State Police who were directly involved in implementing the murder of Jews and other Nazi victims during the Holocaust.
Holocaust The murder around six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. Sinti-Roma, Poles, people with physical and mental disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents were also targeted by the Nazis.
Jehovah's Witness A religious sect that originated in the United States and had about 20,000 members in Germany in 1933. Their religious beliefs did not allow them to swear allegiance to any worldly power, making them enemies in the eyes of the Nazi state.
pogrom Originally a Russian word meaning "devastation" used to describe organized, large-scale acts of violence against Jewish communities, especially the kind instigated by the authorities in Czarist Russia.
Kristallnacht Program An organized pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938. Kristallnacht is also known as the "Night of Broken Glass," or "Crystal Night."
propaganda False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of the population.
Reich The official name of the Nazi regime; ruled from 1933 to 1945 under the command of Adolf Hitler. Historically, the First Reich was the medieval Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. The Second Reich included the German Empire from 1871-1918.
Shoah A Hebrew word meaning "catastrophe," referring to the Holocaust.
ghetto Sections of towns and cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.
survivor Within the context of the Holocaust, a survivor is someone who escaped death at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators.
Aryan A rather ambiguous term the Nazis primarily applied to people of Northern European racial background. Although never defined, in April 1933, the Nazis defined "non-Aryans" as individuals who had a parent or grandparent who was Jewish.
boycott To abstain from using, buying, or dealing with a business as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion.
ideology the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
genocide Acts to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, killing members of the group; causing harm to the group; conditions of life calculated to bring a physical destruction;prevent births within the group; transferring children to other groups.
desecration to divert from a sacred to a profane use or purpose.
Created by: natalie.jones
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