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Alliance
Connection between families, groups, or individuals; an assistance and protection.
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Annex
Something added on, such as a wing of a building.
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Anti-Semitism
Hostility toward or hatred of Jews as a religious or ethnic group, often accompanied by social, economic, or political discrimination.
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Auschwitz
The largest Nazi concentration camp complex, located 37 miles west of Krakow, Poland; included Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (killing center), and Auschwitz III (forced-labor camp).
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Collaborate
To work with others (as in writing a book) or to cooperate with an enemy force that has taken over one’s country.
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Deport
To force (a person who is not a citizen) to leave a country.
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Ghetto
A part of a city in which members of a minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.
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Government
Control and direction of public business (as of a city or a nation); a system of control; the persons making up a governing body.
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Adolf Hitler
Führer (leader) of the National Socialist (Nazi) movement 1921–1945; Reich Chancellor of Germany 1933–1945; Führer of the German Nation 1934–1945.
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Holocaust
A complete destruction especially by fire.
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Immigrate
To come into a foreign country to live.
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Inferior
Situated lower down (as in place or importance); of little or less importance, value, or merit.
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Jew
A person who is a descendant of the ancient Hebrew or whose religion is Judaism.
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Liberate
To set free.
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Murder
The intentional and unlawful killing of a human being.
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Nazi
A member of a political party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945.
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Persecute
To treat continually in a way meant to be cruel and harmful.
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Policy
A course of action chosen to guide people in making decisions.
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Rabbi
Master, teacher – used as a term of address for Jewish religious leaders; a professionally trained leader of a Jewish congregation.
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Synagogue
In Judaism, a house of worship and learning.
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SS
German abbreviation for Schutzstaffel (protection squads); a paramilitary formation of the Nazi party responsible for various atrocities.
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Yellow Star
A badge featuring the Star of David used by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust to visibly identify Jews.
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