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Holocaust Terms 2

Holocaust Terms 2. ghetto. Section of a city where Jews were forced to live Sometimes walled in high brick or stone walls to keep Jews segregated from “normal” people. Watch a short video on Jewish ghettos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZUVo6SSvds. Hitler Youth.

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Holocaust Terms 2

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  1. Holocaust Terms 2

  2. ghetto • Section of a city where Jews were forced to live • Sometimes walled in high brick or stone walls to keep Jews segregated from “normal” people

  3. Watch a short video on Jewish ghettos • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZUVo6SSvds

  4. Hitler Youth • Organization of young boys (like Boy Scouts) were kids were taught to love Hitler and Germany • Kids trained to be “good Nazis”

  5. Watch a short video on the Hitler Youth • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckm6VBpS1Xg

  6. Juden • German for “Jew”

  7. Judenrat • “Jewish Council” • Tactic used by Nazis whereby they create a “government council” made up of Jews • Judenrat responsible for carrying out all Nazi decrees and rules • Jewish anger directed at fellow Jews on council

  8. Shoah • Hebrew for Holocaust

  9. Capo • Jewish police • Tactic used by Nazis to use Jews who are given police power over their fellow Jews • Capos must enforce the “law”, anger directed towards Capos • Capos get preferential treatment, stay alive • Considered “sell outs” or traitors by other Jews

  10. Kristallnacht • “Night of Broken Glass” • Anti-Jewish attacks (pogroms) organized by Nazis in Germany and Austria • Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues, burned looted, destroyed • Thousands of Jews beaten, arrested, or killed • Jews forced to pay for the damages to their own property

  11. Watch a short video on Kristallnacht • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uine5MhOc0I

  12. Lebensraum • German for “living space” • Hitler’s excuse for invading other countries • His “Master Race” of Aryans needed living space to breed and expand

  13. Mien Kampf • Book written by Hitler while in prison outlining his ideas, thoughts, and plans for the future of Germany and the Jews • “My Struggle”

  14. Nazi • Name of Hitler’s political party that came to power in Germany

  15. Nuremberg Laws • Set of laws designed to rob German Jews of their civil rights • Examples: • Section 1Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or some related blood are forbidden. Such marriages contracted despite the law are invalid, even if they take place abroad in order to avoid the law. • Section 2Sexual relations outside marriage between Jews and citizens of German or related blood are forbidden. • Section 3Jews will not be permitted to employ female citizens of German or related blood who are under 45 years as housekeepers. • Section 41. Jews are forbidden to raise the national flag or display the national colors.2. However, they are allowed to display the Jewish colors.

  16. Bystanders • People who saw what was happening to the Jews and stood by and did nothing • German people, Polish people, French people, etc. • Are they guilty?

  17. Collaborators • People who aided the Nazis in rounding up the Jews, reporting Jews • Local politicians, religious leaders • Are they guilty?

  18. Perpetrators • People who committed the actual crimes against the Jews and others during the Holocaust

  19. Pogrom • Organized riots directed against Jews • Began in Russia • Classic example of anti-Semitism • Kristallnacht

  20. The SS. • Elite section of Nazis in charge of carrying out the “final solution” • Known for their brutality and inhumanity • Identified by the twin “lightning bolt” SS symbols

  21. Watch short video on the SS • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBBJvHtfI4

  22. Selection • Process by which Nazi official and “doctors” determined if Jews were worthy of continuing to be used as slave labor or would be sent to their death in the gas chambers • Jews were lined up before the selection panel and paraded by, with a “point of the thumb” they decided life or death

  23. Watch video of Jewish survivors describing selection • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNpl83-rXKM

  24. Special Treatment • Euphemism for Jews who were designated for the gas chambers • Jews singled out for death • Scene in Schindler’s List, “Don’t worry, you’ll receive special treatment… I hope you don’t mean… JC, do we have to invent a new language? … I think so…

  25. Sonderkommando • Groups of Jews who were forced to aid the Nazis by performing “special tasks” like carrying bodies from the gas chambers to the ovens, organizing the stolen possessions of fellow Jews, etc. • Scene in the movie… Jewish jewelers forced to work with stolen Jewish jewelry… gold from the teeth of dead Jews

  26. Wannsee Conference • Infamous meeting of Nazi party leaders where they decided on The Final Solution

  27. Yad Vashem • Jewish Holocaust memorial museum located in Israel • Features a street lined with trees planted for each of the righteous gentiles who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust

  28. Avenue of the Righteous

  29. Tour Yad Vashem • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zte0vT8MaA

  30. Extermination • To completely kill off ALL Jews in Europe

  31. Gypsies/Roma • Nomadic ethnic group viewed by the Nazis as inferior, “shady”, untrustworthy, dirty, etc. • Rounded up as a group and placed in concentration camps • Eventually marked for death

  32. Homosexuals • Another group of people designated by the Nazis as “undesirable” • Rounded up and placed in concentration camps • Marked for death

  33. Euthanasia • Euphemism for murdering those deemed “undesirable” by the Nazis • “Mercy killing” • Physically disabled, mentally disabled, blind, deaf, etc. • Placed in special “treatment centers” and gassed in vans and trucks

  34. Jehovah’s Witness • Religious group targeted by the Nazis • Rounded up and placed in the camps • Marked for death

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