Holocaust Terms Defined

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Holocaust Terms Defined

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  your binder.

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1. Holocaust

• Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, caused
  by fire or nuclear war

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2. Genocide

• The killing of an ethnic, religious, or national
  group it includes destruction of cultural and
  political institutions

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3. Final Solution

• The term used by Nazis referring to the
  systematic plan to murder every Jewish man,
  woman, and child in Europe

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4. Aryan

• Nazi term that meant a superior Caucasian from
  Northern Europe who wasnt Jewish

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5. Prejudice

• Prejudging or forming an opinion about a person
  before knowing the facts prejudice is frequently
  based on stereotypes

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6. Stereotypes

• Oversimplified generalizations about a person or
  group of people without regard for individual
  differences.

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7. Discrimination

• Unfair, unjust or prejudicial actions in areas
  such as employment, education, housing, banking,
  and political rights

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8. Antisemitism

• Prejudice or discrimination against Jews.
  Antisemitism is based on the false belief that
  Jews are a race Jews were viewed by Nazis as
  racially inferior to Aryans.

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9. Scapegoat

• To blame a person or group for something
  prejudicial thinking and discriminatory acts can
  lead to scapegoating

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10. Third Reich

• Hitlers administration in Germany

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11. Fascism

• A social and political ideology
• A system of government with a dictator
• Suppression of the opposition through terror and
  censorship
• The state or nation is the highest priority
• Personal/Individual freedoms often limited

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12. Gestapo

• The German security police

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13. S.S.(Schutzstaffel)

• The security organization of the National
  Socialist German Workers Party

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14. Propaganda

• False or partly false information used by a
  government or political party intended to sway
  the opinions of a population

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15. Ration

• a fixed amount of goods officially allowed to
  each person during a time of shortage, as in
  wartime.

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16. Ghettos

• Sections of towns or cities that the German
  occupation authorities and their allies used to
  concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish
  populations.

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17. Lodz Ghetto

• Pronounced (lo sch)
• The first major ghetto, with 164,000 Jews
• Established in Poland on May 1,1940
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18. Concentration Camps

• Established by the Nazis, these were institutions
  of terror, control, punishment, and murder
  through hunger and/or disease

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19. Auschwitz-Birkenau

• A city in southwestern Poland where there was an
  infamous concentration camp
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19. Religious Terms

• Cabbala / Kabbalah
• Jewish mysticism
• An approach to Bible study that analyzes hidden
  meanings in the text
• Torah and Talmud
• Sacred Jewish texts