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| Allies | the countries that opposed the Axis powers: United States, Great Britain , Soviet Union |
| Aryan | the name of a prehistoric people of Europe and India. Hitler believed them to be the master race. |
| Auschwitz | The largest concentration camp established by the Nazis; located in Poland |
| bar mitzvah | the ceremony inducting Jewish boys into adulthood and religious responsibilities on their 13th birthday |
| Birkenau | a segment of Auschwitz where the killing center was located |
| Black shirts | Also known as the SS; organized as Hitler's personal guard |
| boycott | a protest in which a group of people stop buying a product or using a service, in order to express disapproval |
| Brown Shirts | also known as the SA or storm trooper |
| Buchenwald | one of the first major concentration camps in Germany |
| Chelmno | the first death camp in Poland |
| communists | people who believe that private property should be abolished, and that someday workers will govern themselves |
| concentration camp | prison where the enemies of the German government were gathered involuntarily |
| crematoria | ovens used to burn bodies of death-camp victims |
| D day | June 6, l944, the allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe |
| Dachau | the first concentration camp, located near Munich |
| death camp | camps built for the specific purpose of mass murder |
| displaced persons' camp | camp where former concentration-camp inmates lived |
| Evian conference | meeting where no country offered to take in the masses of Jews wishing to escape Nazi persecution |
| gas chambers | rooms where groups of Jews were killed by poisonous gases |
| Gestapo | secret state police |
| ghetto | an enclosed and restricted area of a city in which the Jews were required to live |
| Gypsies | a nomadic people of Europe |
| Haggadah | the prayer book used during the Passover Seder |
| Hindenburg, Paul von | German general and hero of WWI |
| Hitler, Adolf | founder of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany |
| Hitler Youth | the Nazi Party youth group |
| Kristallnacht | the night of broken glass; synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were burned |
| labor camp | Nazi concentration camp where inmates were used as forced laborers |
| Lodz | city in Poland where first major Jewish ghetto was created |
| Monowitz | the labor-camp segment of Auschwitz |
| Nazi | the national Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Nuremburg laws | 2 laws stating that Jews were not citizens and they couldn't marry German citizens |
| Oma | German for grandma |
| Opa | German for grandpa |
| Palestine | ancient homeland of the Jews |
| Passover | the Jewish holiday celebrating the Israelites' freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt |
| pogrom | an organized massacre of Jews |
| resistance | an underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation |
| Sabbath | a day of rest and worship, observed by Jews on Saturday |
| seder | the ceremonial dinner held by Jews on the first evening of Passover |
| socialists | followers of a theory of economics that maintains that the means of production should be owned by the workers |
| Star of David | a 6-pointed star used as a symbol of Judaism |
| synagogue | a Jewish house of worship |
| work camp | same as labor camp |
| Yiddish | a language spoken by many European Jews |
| Zionists | a movement to restore the ancient Jewish homeland in Palestine |
