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| Auschwitz | : Founded in 1940, it is the iconic image of concentration camps |
| Bystander | Anyone who stands by during a genocide, pogrom, or similar event and does nothing |
| Death Marches | A term coined by survivors to describe the forced marches concentration camp prisoners had to endure in the winter of 1945 as the war was drawing to a close |
| Dehumanization | Describing or treating an individual or group in a way that is designed to depict them as being less than human |
| Deportation | The act of removing a given group of people from society |
| Displaced Person (DP) | A person or group who are uprooted during a crisis |
| Ethnic Cleansing | The removal of a given group from a geographic area. Often precedes or accompanies acts of genocide but is not a requirement |
| Genocide | Killings of members of a specific, identifiable group |
| Interahamwe ("Those who work together") | Militia groups who were responsible for carrying out and promoting the 1994 Rwandan Genocide |
| Intelligentsia | Any member of the intellectual class of a given society, whose members often include political leaders, academics, artists, journalists, teachers, theologians and writers |
| Inyenzi | During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu propagandists referred to the Tutsi as inyenzi, which means “cockroach” in Kinyarwanda |
| Janjaweed | The militias who are financed to carry out genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. |
| Kangura | Newspaper that was used to fuel ethnic hostility in the years before the Rwandan Genocide. |
| Perpetrators | Any person who participates or collaborates in committing genocide |
| RTLM | RTLM broadcast continuous messages urging Hutu throughout the country to kill their Tutsi neighbors |
| Upstanders | Any person who takes a stand against an injustice posed against another in an effort to dehumanize |
