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8th Grade Reading
Prisoner B-3087 Background Vocabulary
Definition | Term |
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a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. The systematic slaughter of Europeans Jews in Nazi concentration camps during WWII. | Holocaust |
a section of a city, thickly populated predominantly by members of an ethnic group - Jews were required to live in. | ghetto |
“work sets you free” | Arbiet Macht Frie |
to get rid of, especially by killing in an evil way | liquidate |
to be picked, to be put to death within a concentration camp | selection |
set free from a situation, especially imprisonment or slavery in which their liberty is severely restricted | liberate |
for fear that | lest |
we should remember | lest we forget |
to destroy completely | exterminate |
utterly destroy | annihilate |
to take, especially without permission | annexed |
Master race: term the Nazis used to describe people who they believed were of pure German blood - a superior race of white people with blond hair and blue eyes. | Aryan |