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Holocaust Vocabulary

Holocaust Vocabulary. Please take notes in the Literature section of your binder. 1. holocaust. Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, caused by fire or nuclear war. 2. Aryan. The Nazi term that meant a “superior Caucasian Gentile”. Superior?. 3. Final Solution.

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Holocaust Vocabulary

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  1. Holocaust Vocabulary Please take notes in the Literature section of your binder.

  2. 1. holocaust • Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, caused by fire or nuclear war

  3. 2. Aryan • The Nazi term that meant a “superior Caucasian Gentile”

  4. Superior?

  5. 3. Final Solution • The term used by Nazis to mean the mass physical extermination of the Jews

  6. 4. Genocide • The killing of a whole people or nation

  7. 5. Gestapo • The German security police

  8. 6. S.S. • The security organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party

  9. 7. Prejudice • A judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known

  10. 8. Discrimination • The unjust or prejudicial treatment of a group of people (actions)

  11. 9. Scapegoat • A person, group, or thing that bears the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others

  12. 9. Third Reich • Hitler’s administration in Germany

  13. 10. Auschwitz • A city in southwestern Poland where there was an infamous extermination camp • http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189&MediaId=3371

  14. 11. Ghettos Sections of to14towns or cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.

  15. 12. Lodz Ghetto • Pronounced (lo sch) • The first major ghetto, with 164,000 Jews • Established in Poland on May 1,1940

  16. 13. Ration • a fixed amount of a goods officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.

  17. 14. Fascism • A social and political ideology • A system of government with a centralized authority under a dictator • Suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship • The state or nation is the highest priority • Personal/Individual freedoms often limited

  18. 15. antisemitism • Prejudiice or discrimination against Jews.

  19. 16. stereotypes • An oversimplified generalization about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences.

  20. 17. propaganda • False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of a population

  21. 18. Religious Terms Cabbala • Jewish mysticism • An approach to Bible study that analyzes hidden meanings in the text Torah and Talmud • Sacred Jewish texts

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