Holocaust Vocabulary Worksheet (original) (raw)
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Holocaust Vocabulary
antisemitism | The intense dislike for and against Jewish people |
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aryan | Those descended from an Indo-European speaking people who embraced racialist thought, sharing the idea with Nazis |
b'richa | Organized movement of Jews by Hitler |
concentration camps | A place where large numbers of political prisoners or persecuted minorities were imprisoned, especially in Nazi Germany |
death camp | A prison camp for political prisoners or prisoners of war, in which many die from conditions or mass execution |
dehumanization | The act of degrading people based on their best qualities |
displacement | The moving of something from its position so something else can take the place |
euthanasia | The painless killing of a patient, human or animal, that is suffering from an incurable and painful disease or irreversible coma |
genocide | The deliberate killing of a large group of people, often of a specific ethnic group |
gestapo | A German secret police under Nazi rule that suppressed opposition to the Nazis |
holocaust | The mass murder of Jewish people under the German Nazi rule from 1941 to 1945 |
marranos | Sephardic Jewish people living in the Iberian peninsula that were forced to convert to Catholicism |
pogrom | An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group |
propaganda | The dissemination of biased or misleading information to cause a point of view |
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