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Holocaust Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Aryan | used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features. |
Ghetto (WWII version) | Ghettos separating Jews from the rest of the population were part of the Nazi plan to destroy Europe's Jews. |
Refugee | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. |
Genocide | Mass killing of certain people. |
Antisemitism | Prejudice or discrimination against Jews |
Torah | The "teachings" of Judaism |
Bias | Showing more favor to a person or thing. |
Holocaust | destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. |
Mischlinge | a pejorative legal term which was used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of mixed "Aryan" and non-Aryan, such as Jewish, ancestry as they were classified by the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935. |
Scapegoat | Pinning the blame on someone else. |
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