Holocaust Vocabulary

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Holocaust Vocabulary

• Please take notes in the Literature section of
  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. Aryan

• The Nazi term that meant a superior Caucasian
  Gentile

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Superior?
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3. Final Solution

• The term used by Nazis to mean the mass physical
  extermination of the Jews

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4. Genocide

• The killing of a whole people or nation

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5. Gestapo

• The German security police

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6. S.S.

• The security organization of the National
  Socialist German Workers Party

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7. Prejudice

• A judgment or opinion formed before the facts are
  known

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8. Discrimination

• The unjust or prejudicial treatment of a group of
  people (actions)

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9. Scapegoat

• A person, group, or thing that bears the blame
  for the mistakes or crimes of others

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9. Third Reich

• Hitlers administration in Germany

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10. Auschwitz

• A city in southwestern Poland where there was an
  infamous extermination camp
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11. Ghettos

• Sections of to14towns or cities that the German
  occupation authorities and their allies used to
  concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish
  populations.

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12. Lodz Ghetto

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

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13. Ration

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

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14. Fascism

• A social and political ideology
• A system of government with a centralized
  authority under 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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15. antisemitism

• Prejudiice or discrimination against Jews.

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16. stereotypes

• An oversimplified generalization about a person
  or group of people without regard for individual
  differences.

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17. 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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18. Religious Terms

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