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Alliance

Connection between families, groups, or individuals; an assistance and protection.

Annex

Something added on, such as a wing of a building.

Anti-Semitism

Hostility toward or hatred of Jews as a religious or ethnic group, often accompanied by social, economic, or political discrimination.

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).

Collaborate

To work with others (as in writing a book) or to cooperate with an enemy force that has taken over one’s country.

Deport

To force (a person who is not a citizen) to leave a country.

Ghetto

A part of a city in which members of a minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.

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.

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.

Holocaust

A complete destruction especially by fire.

Immigrate

To come into a foreign country to live.

Inferior

Situated lower down (as in place or importance); of little or less importance, value, or merit.

Jew

A person who is a descendant of the ancient Hebrew or whose religion is Judaism.

Liberate

To set free.

Murder

The intentional and unlawful killing of a human being.

Nazi

A member of a political party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945.

Persecute

To treat continually in a way meant to be cruel and harmful.

Policy

A course of action chosen to guide people in making decisions.

Rabbi

Master, teacher – used as a term of address for Jewish religious leaders; a professionally trained leader of a Jewish congregation.

Synagogue

In Judaism, a house of worship and learning.

SS

German abbreviation for Schutzstaffel (protection squads); a paramilitary formation of the Nazi party responsible for various atrocities.

Yellow Star

A badge featuring the Star of David used by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust to visibly identify Jews.