Holocaust Words: Reading 8 Vocab
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Organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people
Pogroms
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Symbol of the Nazi party
Swastika
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The forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied lands to camps
Deportation
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The systematic elimination of a people or nation
Genocide
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An innocent person blamed for the problems of others.
Scapegoat
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Term used to refer to the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis.
Holocaust
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The section of a city where Jews were forced to live.
Ghetto
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Racial term used by Nazis to describe the “superior” race.
Aryan
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“Night of Broken Glass" or riots against the Jews.
Kristallnacht
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SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the Soviet Union.
Einsatzgruppen
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Practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race.
Racism
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Place where political prisoners were kept.
Concentration Camp
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**German for “Jews.”**
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**Juden**
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**The Nazi term for the annihilation of the Jews in Europe.**
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**Final Solution**
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**Sewn to clothing to identify the Jews.**
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**Yellow Star**
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**German term that means “pure” or “clean” of the Jews..**
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**judenrein**
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**Discrimination or persecution of Jews.**
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**Anti-Semitism**
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**An attitude toward a person formed without adequate information.**
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**prejudice**
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**Imposed on prisoners by Nazis in order to keep them from liberation.**
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**Death Marches**
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**Abbreviation for Secret State Police.**
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**Gestapo**
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**Roll call area inside concentration and labor camps**
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**Appelplatz**
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**Acronym for the National Socialist German Workers Party.**
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**Nazi**
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**The policy of “mercy” killing the old and handicapped.**
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**Euthanasia**
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**Head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in each ghetto.**
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**judenrat**
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**Nazi term for “supermen” the racial ideal.**
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**Ubermensch**
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**Nazi centers of murder and extermination.**
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**Death camps**
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**The procedure used to determine who would live and die in camps**
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**Selection**
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**The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers at the camps.**
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**Zyklon-B**
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**Hebrew for “flight” name given to those who helped Jews escape.**
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**Bericha**
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**Furnaces where human bodies were burned.**
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**Crematorium**
**Crematorium**
