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Holocaust Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aryan | any of the groups of aggressive seafarers who invaded eastern Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Cyprus, and Egypt |
| Ghetto (WWII version) | isolating Jews and other victims of the Germans during World War II. |
| Refugee | people who must leave their home area for their own safety or survival |
| Genocide | the actualization of the intent, however successfully carried out, to murder in its totality any national, ethnic, racial, religious, political, social, gender or economic group |
| Antisemitism | prejudice against or hatred of Jews |
| Torah | the ''law'' or ''teachings'' of Judaism. |
| Bias | means having an unfair or unbalanced opinion |
| Holocaust | The Holocaust was the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany. |
| 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 | people who symbolically take on the sins of others |