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Holocaust
Holocaust
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History
8th Grade
05/22/2012

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Term
Anti-Semitism –
Definition
systematic hatred of Jewish people
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Aryan –
Definition
pure, German race
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Kristallnacht –
Definition
Night of Broken glass; attack against German Jews
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Genocide –
Definition
systematic elimination of a whole people or nation
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Final Solution –
Definition
Hitler’s plan to eliminate the Jewish population of Europe
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Shoah –
Definition
Hebrew word for the Holocaust
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Nuremberg Laws –
Definition
laws passed that stripped citizenship from German Jews and restricted their freedoms
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Gestapo –
Definition
Hitler’s secret polics
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SS –
Definition
Hitler’s military organization in charge of the Jewish problem and final solution
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Ghetto –
Definition
neighborhood prisons created to house a city’s Jewish population
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Concentration camp –
Definition
camp set up by the Nazis to house enemies of the state; three kinds death camps, prison camps
and labor camps
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Extermination camp –
Definition
a death camp whose main purpose was execution of prisoners
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Labor camp –
Definition
camp where prisoners where used a slave labor
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Dachau –
Definition
first prison camp set up by the Nazis
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15,000 –
Definition
number of camps established by the Nazis to house and/or eliminate prisoners
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Auschwitz-Birkenau –
Definition
Nazis death camp in Poland where 1 ½ million Jews perished
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Crematoria –
Definition
ovens built to dispose of bodies
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Zyklon B –
Definition
hydrogen cyanide gas used to kill prisoners in death camps
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1948 –
Definition
year the United Nations voted to create the nation of Israel as homeland for Jewish people
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6 million –
Definition
number of Jews killed by the Nazis during WWII
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Nuremberg Trials –
Definition
war crimes trials of Nazis after the war for crimes against humantity.
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