Holocaust Unit Terms

Ms. Miller (United States of America)
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  1. antisemitism
    the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
  2. bystander
    a spectator who does not participate in some event
  3. liberator
    someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
  4. victim
    an unfortunate person who suffers from adverse circumstances
  5. communism
    a theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
  6. concentration camp
    a place where persecuted groups are forcibly confined
  7. dehumanization
    the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities
  8. displaced person
    a person forced to flee from home or country
  9. euthanasia
    the act of killing someone painlessly
  10. fascism
    a political theory advocating an authoritarian government
  11. final solution
    the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime
  12. gas chamber
    instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals
  13. genocide
    systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
  14. Gestapo
    the secret state police in Nazi Germany
  15. ghetto
    a poor densely populated city district
  16. guerilla force
    an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment; often rural and organized in large groups
  17. holocaust
    an act of mass destruction and loss of life
  18. Judaism
    the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
  19. Passover
    (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
  20. perpetrator
    someone who commits wrongdoing
  21. pogrom
    organized persecution of an ethnic group, especially Jews
  22. propaganda
    information that is spread to promote some cause
  23. Reich
    the German state
  24. resettlement
    the transportation of people to a new place to live
  25. socialism
    a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
  26. Star of David
    a six-pointed star formed from two equilateral triangles
  27. swastika
    the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich
  28. synagogue
    the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
  29. Treaty of Versailles
    the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
  30. Zionism
    a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
  31. implemented
    forced or compelled or put in force
  32. consolidated
    joined together into a whole
  33. Aryan
    a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
  34. imposed
    set forth authoritatively as obligatory
  35. persecute
    cause to suffer
  36. regulation
    the act of bringing to uniformity
  37. prestige
    a high standing achieved through success or influence
  38. militarized
    issued military arms
  39. extermination
    the act of getting rid of by killing off
  40. deport
    expel from a country
  41. clandestine
    conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
Created on Thu Dec 12 19:50:50 EST 2013 (updated Mon Dec 16 14:43:46 EST 2013)

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