6th Grade Holocaust

Propoganda

information of misleading nature, used to promote a particular point of view.

Ghetto

separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live

scapegoat

Someone who is blamed for things someone else did.

Concentration Camps

prison camps used in Nazi Germany where prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

anti-semitism

Prejudice against Jewish people

Righteous Gentiles

Non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

Genocide

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Shoah שואה

The Holocaust, in Hebrew.