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| Resistance | refers to the various underground movement groups both intellectual and quasi- military in nature who stood in opposition to the Nazis |
| Black Market | an underground activity of the illegal buying or selling of goods and currency which flourished during the food and product shortages of WWII |
| Yellow Star of David | a symbol that Jews were forced to wear on all clothing in Nazi occupied territories |
| Call up notice | a Nazi sponsored letter which mandated that the recipient report to a designated location such as a work camp. Most who received such letters were ultimately transported to concentration camps. |
| Concentration camp | Nazi guarded areas of imprisonment for Jews and other “undesirables” – many were designed as death camps |
| Auschwitz-Birkenau | located in Poland it was the largest of the concentration camps and the site of over 1 million murders, approximately 90% of whom were Jews |
| Bergen-Belsen | originally designed as a camp for political prisoners being held for exchange, it converted to concentration camp in 1944 and is the site where Anne Frank and her sister Margot died |
| Green Police | German uniformed police force who patrolled the streets to maintain order |
| Gestapo | the German secret police who used terror and torture during interrogations |
| SS | the black-shirted elite uniformed guard of Hitler and the officials who also ran the concentration camps |
