HOLOCAUST VOCABULARY PART 1

MacCarthy

Racism

Hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

Intolerance

The unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.

Stereotype

A simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group

Bigotry

intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.

Bullying

Use superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants.

Anti Semitism

Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

Aryan

Used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features

Scapegoat

The one or group who takes the blame for others

Propaganda

Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

Hitler Youth

Program by the Nazis to

spread ideals to the youth of Germany

Genocide

The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Ethnic Cleansing

The mass expulsion or killing of members of an ethnic or religious group in a society.

Cataclysm A terrible event causing great suffering to a

large group of people is a cataclysm. It usually affects a large area and all the people therein. It may cause great changes in the existing order of things. Destructive wars, violent revolutions, floods, earthquakes, etc., are examples of cataclysms

Two types of Cataclysm

Human-Caused by man: War, the Holocaust, September 11th.

Nature-Caused by nature: Earthquake, Hurricane, Tornado.

Gestapo

The German secret police under

Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe and sent Jews and others to concentration camps

SS (Schutzstaffel)

Special police force in Nazi

Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps

Nuremberg Laws

A series of Nazi anti-Semitic

laws passed on September 15th, 1935. These laws defined Jews, excluded Jews from German society, and removed all their civil rights

Bystander

A person who is present

at an event or incident but does not take part

Gentile

A person who is not Jewish

Brown Shirts A member of any fascist

party or group

Nazi, storm trooper

Ghetto

A quarter of a city in which Jews were required to live so that the Nazis could control and contain them.

Judenrat

Council of Jewish "elders" established on Nazi orders in an occupied area

Refugee A person who has been

forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

Occupation

Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces

Dehumanization To deprive of human

qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility

Perpetrator

To be responsible for; commit a crime

Final Solution The Nazi program of

exterminating Jews during the Third Reich.