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Holocaust vocab-7th
Holocaust vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anti-Semitism | discrimination or persecution of Jews |
| Aryan | racial term used by the Nazis to describe a "race" they believed to be superior |
| Crematorium | furnaces where human bodies were burned |
| Zyklon B | Insecticide pellets used to kill people in gas chambers |
| Final Solution | Nazi term for the annihilation of the Jews in Europe |
| Fuhrer | leader |
| Gestapo | the secret police set up by the Nazis in 1933 to eliminate opposition to Hitler and the Nazi party |
| Kaddish | prayer for the dead |
| Ghetto | the section of a city where Jews were forced to live |
| Holocaust | term used to refer to the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass |
| Lebensraum | living space |
| Nazi | National Socialist German Workers Party |
| Pogrom | organized act of persecution or massacre |
| Swastika | symbol of the Nazi party |