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| Adolf Hilter | 1889-1945. Founder and Chancellor of Nazi Party after 1933. |
| Hilter Youth | The Nazi Party youth group for indoctrinating children and preparing them for leadership. |
| Kristalllnacht | Nov 9-10, 1938. The Night of Broken Glass, when synagogues were burned and Jewish-owned businesses, schools, and and homes were vandalized and looted. Thousands of Jews were arrested, and some were killed. |
| labor camp | Nazi concentration camp where inmates were used as forced labor. |
| Lodz | City in Poland where the first major Jewish ghetto was created by the Nazis. |
| Monowitz | Labor camp segment of Auschwitz. |
| Nazi | Abbreviation for "National Socialist German Workers' Party." They preached hatred of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others, and commanded the German expansion that led to WWII. |
| Nuremburg laws | Two German laws issued in 1935: no "impure" German could be a citizen; and no "impure" German could marry a "pure" German. |
| Oma | German word for "grandma." |
| Opa | German word for "grandpa." |
| Passover | Jewish holiday celebration celebrating the Israelites' freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt. |
