| A | B |
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| Nuremberg Laws | robbed German Jews of their citizenship & banned marriage between Germans & Jews |
| Genocide | the killing of people from the same racial, political or cultural group |
| Einsatzgruppen | special nazi strike force whose purpose was to eliminate the Jewish population |
| Concentration Camps | German prison facilities for Jews |
| death squads | mobile killing units |
| death camps | places where Jews were sent in large numbers to be murdered |
| crematoriums | huge ovens used to murder and destroy Jews |
| liberate | to set free |
| Holocaust | the historical time period known for Hitler's planned destruction of European Jews |
| Shoah | the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, it means "catastrophe" |
