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| allies | the nations fighting Germany, Japan, and Italy during WWII (primarily the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union) |
| anti-Semitism | the hatred of Jewish people |
| Kristallnacht | November 9 - 10, 1938, The Night of Broken Glass, a government sponsored pogram - synagogues were burned, schools and businesses were vandalized |
| censored | materials were prevented from being published so the truth could be hidden |
| concentration camps | the Nazi's created these camps to imprison all of their "enemies". |
| deportation | the forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries from their homes |
| discrimination | treating some people better or worse than others without any fair or proper reason |
| prejudice | an opinion formed before the facts are known, often founded on suspicions, ignorance, and the irrational fear or hatred of other races, religions, or nationalities |
| the final solution | the Nazi's name for the plan to murder all of the Jewish people of Europe |
| gas chambers | places built by the Nazis to kill a group of people by filling the room with a deadly gas |
| genocide | the deliberate and systematic murder of a religious, racial, national, or cultural group |
| ghetto | a poor section of a city where all Jews from the surrounding areas were forced to reside |
| Holocaust | the destruction of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in Europe between the years 1933-1945 |
| inferior race | the groups of people that the Nazis thought were of a lower class such as Jews, gypsies, and Slavic people |
| Adolph Hitler | the leader of the Nazi party in Germany |
| Nazi | National German Worker's Party, a political movement and later a form of government that developed in Germany in the 1920's, symbol was the swastika |
| neutral country | a country that takes neither side in a war (Sweden and Denmark in WWII) |
| Nuremberg Laws | 2 German laws issued in 1935: the laws excluded Jews from German society, removed them from jobs, and expelled them from schools |
| Death Camp | Camps built for the specific purpose of mass murder - 6 death camps (Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Maidanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka |
| persecution | the act of treating people in a cruel or harmful way |
| refugee | a person who has run to a foreign country for safety |
| resistance | the "underground" organizations working to help the Jews against Hitler and the Nazi army |
| scapegoat | a person, group, or thing that is blamed for the mistakes or crimes of others |
| Swastika | an ancient religious symbol (a hooked cross) that became the official symbol of the Nazi Party and is now banned in Germany |
| synagogue | a Jewish church |
| Zyklon B | a pesticide gas used to kill Jews in the death camps |
| St. Louis Incident | In May 1939, the ship St. Louis, left Germany with 937 Jewish refugees seeking asylum in the Americas. 907 were denied and returned to Europe. |
| yellow star | the six-pointed Star of David was a Jewish symbol that the Nazis forced Jews above the age of six to wear as a mark of shame and to make Jews visible |
