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Holocaust Terms Defined

Holocaust Terms Defined. 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. Genocide.

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Holocaust Terms Defined

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  1. Holocaust Terms Defined 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. Genocide • The killing of an ethnic, religious, or national group; it includes destruction of cultural and political institutions

  4. 3. Final Solution • The term used by Nazis referring to the systematic plan to murder every Jewish man, woman, and child in Europe

  5. 4. Aryan • Nazi term that meant a “superior Caucasian” from Northern Europe who wasn’t Jewish

  6. 5. Prejudice • Prejudging or forming an opinion about a person before knowing the facts; prejudice is frequently based on stereotypes

  7. 6. Stereotypes • Oversimplified generalizations about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences.

  8. 7. Discrimination • Unfair, unjust or prejudicial actions in areas such as employment, education, housing, banking, and political rights

  9. 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.

  10. 9. Scapegoat • To blame a person or group for something; prejudicial thinking and discriminatory acts can lead to scapegoating

  11. 10. Third Reich • Hitler’s administration in Germany

  12. 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

  13. 12. Gestapo • The German security police

  14. 13. S.S.(Schutzstaffel) • The security organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party

  15. 14. Propaganda • False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of a population

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

  17. 16. Ghettos Sections of towns or cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.

  18. 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

  19. 18. Concentration Camps • Established by the Nazis, these were institutions of terror, control, punishment, and murder through hunger and/or disease

  20. 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

  21. 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

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