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SC 7-The Holocaust
SC 7 The Holocaust
Question | DEFINITION |
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Nuremberg laws | laws that robbed German Jews of their citizenship and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans |
genocide | the killing of a people from the same racial, political, or cultural group |
Einsatzgruppen | special strike forces set up by Nazi leaders to eliminate the Jewish population |
concentration camps | prison camps intended for the Jewish people including Buchenwald and Dachau |
death squads | Acted as mobile killing units. They followed advancing armies into places like the Soviet Union where they rounded up Jews in villages, shot them, and buried them in mass graves. |
death camps | The Nazis sent Jews in captured countries to camps built for the purpose of murdering them. In these camps, men, women, and children died in gas chambers. |
crematoriums | huge ovens where Jewish remains were burned |
liberate | to free |
Holocaust | the planned destruction of the Jewish people in Europe, 6 million died including at least 1 million children |
Shoah | The Hebrew word for the Holocaust. It means "catastrophe"--an extreme loss or ruin. |
war crimes | violations of basic human rights |
Nuremberg trials | Nazis were tried for war crimes |
Auschwitz | in Poland, the largest death camp |
Anne Frank | Jewish teenager who kept a diary while in hiding for 2 years before being discovered |
ghetto | walled off area designated for the Jewish populations while Nazis were preparing to move them to concentration camps, and confiscating their homes and belongings |