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Holocaust Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anti-Semitism | Discrimination or persecution of Jews. |
| Aryan | Racial term used by Nazis to describe a “race” they believed to be superior. |
| Concentration Camp | Place where political prisoners were kept. |
| Crematorium | Furnaces where human bodies were burned. |
| Deportation | The forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied lands to concentration camps. |
| Death Camps | Nazi centers of murder and extermination. |
| Genocide | The systematic elimination of a people or nation. |
| Ghetto | The section of a city where Jews lived. |
| Holocaust | Term used to refer to the systematic murder of Jews by the Nazis. |
| Juden | German for “Jews”. |
| Kristallnacht | “Night of Broken Glass”. Nazi-organized riot against the Jews on Nov. 9-10, 1938. |
| Racism | Practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race. |
| Scapegoat | An innocent person blamed for the problems of another. |
| Selection | The procedure used to determine who would live and who would die in death and labor camps. |
| Swastika | Symbol of the Nazi party; originally an ancient religious symbol. |
| Yellow Star | Yellow, cloth Star of David sewn to clothing to identify Jewish prisoners. |
| Zyklon B | The gas used in the gas chambers at the death camps. |