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the war between the Axis (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (mainly U.S. and England), beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on
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God counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names.
Meaning God knows who we are, and we are all important to Him. |
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| irregular armed resistance to German occupiers in WW2, (France, Norway, Yugoslavia); also applied to the German attempt in 1944, headed by Stauffenberg, to assassinate Hitler |
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The Star of David, also known as shield of David is believed to symbolize the shape of King David's shield. It is a symbol associated with Judaism. |
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| Jews are members of one of the oldest religions. The line between being a "member" of the religion and being of the Jewish "race" seems to be difficult even for Jews to define, however most Jews consider Judaism a religion, rather than a race. |
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| dictatorship led by Hitler, had a set of policies and laws saying that the "Aryan race" was superior based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scientific legitimacy; tried to rid the world of "lower races" or "sub-humans"; led to the Holocaust; targeted peoples, in particular Jews; labeled as "inferior" were Romani, persons of color and Jews |
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| concentration camps where Nazi's first started moving Jews and others to different areas; many died relocating, being worked to death, starved, were killed from disease or dirty living conditions;many were just murdered for being Jewish |
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| a person trained in Jewish law, ritual, and tradition and becomes a Jewish religious leader, especially of a synagogue. |
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| a Jewish house of worship or the people who worship at a Jewish house of worship (church) |
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| once a symbol that meant prosperity and good fortune; now has a negative stigma since it was used by Hitler's soldiers and the Nazi party; now symbolizes hatred and destruction |
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