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