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Related Vocabulary about the Holocaust
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7th Grade
02/10/2018

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Allies
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The nations fighting Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during World War II
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Gypsies (Roma/Santi)
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An ethnic group which was made up of two main groups: Roma and Sinti, which the Nazi killed most of them
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Holocaust
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A systematic torture and murder of about six million European Jews and millions of other outcast by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945.
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Jews
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Jewish community or as followers of the Jewish religion or culture.
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Nazi
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National Socialist Democratic Workers Party, who believed in the idea of Aryan supremacy
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Ghetto
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A section of a city where Jews were forced to live, usually with several families living in one house, separated from the rest of the city by walls or wire fences, and used primarily as a station for gathering Jews for deportation to concentration camps
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Concentration Camp
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Camps in which Jews were imprisoned by the Nazis, located in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe
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Treblinka
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Death camp located in sparsely populated area near Treblinka, Poland, approximately 870,000 Jews killed
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Aryan
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A term used by the Nazis to describe northern European physical characteristics (blonde hair and blue eyes)as racially superior
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Axis
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The Axis powers, originally Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, extended to Japan when it entered the war
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