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Holocaust Vocab
World History-P3-Stoffels
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aryan | White non-Jewish people, like those of northern European descent typically having blond hair and blue eyes and regarded as a supposedly superior racial group. |
| Ghetto (WWII definition) | A place where a group of people were forcibly segregated from others. Used by the Nazis to segregate the Jews. |
| Refugee | Someone who has been forced to leave their country to escape things like war, persecution, or natural disasters. |
| Genocide | The intentional killing of a large group or people from a specific nation or ethnicity which aims to destroy that group or nation. |
| Antisemitism | Hostility or prejudice towards the Jewish people. |
| Torah | The law of God as revealed to Moses which included the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures |
| Bias | Prejudice in favor of one thing, person, or group compared with another usually in a considered unfair. |
| Holocaust | The genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945 done by the Nazis, who murdered around six million Jews across Europe. |
| Mischlinge | used to denote people of mixed Aryan and non-Aryan, such as Jewish. |
| Scapegoat | A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency |