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Holocaust Terms Defined
Please take notes in the Literature section of your binder.
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1. Holocaust
• Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, caused by fire or nuclear war
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2. Genocide
• The killing of an ethnic, religious, or national group; it includes destruction of cultural and political institutions
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3. Final Solution• The term used
by Nazis referring to the systematic plan to murder every Jewish man, woman, and child in Europe
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4. Aryan• Nazi term
that meant a “superior Caucasian” from Northern Europe who wasn’t Jewish
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5. Prejudice
• Prejudging or forming an opinion about a person before knowing the facts; prejudice is frequently based on stereotypes
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6. Stereotypes
• Oversimplified generalizations about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences.
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7. Discrimination• Unfair, unjust
or prejudicial actions in areas such as employment, education, housing, banking, and political rights
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8. Antisemitism
• Prejudice or discrimination against Jews. Antisemitism is based on the false belief that Jews are a race; Jews were viewed by Nazis as racially inferior to Aryans.
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9. Scapegoat
• To blame a person or group for something; prejudicial thinking and discriminatory acts can lead to scapegoating
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10. Third Reich
• Hitler’s administration in Germany
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11. Fascism• A social and political
ideology • A system of government
with a dictator• Suppression of the
opposition through terror and censorship
• The state or nation is the highest priority
• Personal/Individual freedoms often limited
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12. Gestapo
• The German security police
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13. S.S.(Schutzstaffel)
• The security organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party
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14. Propaganda
• False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of a population
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15. Ration
• a fixed amount of goods officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.
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16. Ghettos
Sections of towns or cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.
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17. Lodz Ghetto
• Pronounced (lo sch)
• The first major ghetto, with 164,000 Jews
• Established in Poland on May 1,1940
• http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005071&MediaId=3373
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18. Concentration Camps
• Established by the Nazis, these were institutions of terror, control, punishment, and murder through hunger and/or disease
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19. Auschwitz-Birkenau
• A city in southwestern Poland where there was an infamous concentration camp
• http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005189&MediaId=3371
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19. Religious Terms
Cabbala / Kabbalah• Jewish mysticism• An approach to Bible study that analyzes
hidden meanings in the text
Torah and Talmud• Sacred Jewish texts