Night Vocab Flashcards

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Antisemitism

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Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people

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Auschwitz

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Largest German concentration and extermination camp (located in SW Poland)

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Aryan

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Relating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-European language who invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium BC. Hitler radicalized this word to represent his belief that Aryans were the "superior race."

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Concentration Camp

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A camp where prisoners or persecuted minorities are forcibly confined, usually under harsh conditions

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Crematoria

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Furnaces constructed at concentration camps to burn bodies

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Dehumanization

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The process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities

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Deportation

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The action of deporting a foreigner from a country

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Gestapo

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Nazi secret police

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Ghetto

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Formerly a street, or quarter, of a city set apart as a legally enforced residence area for Jews. One of the earliest forced segregations of Jews.

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Hasidic

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A member of a Jewish sect of the second century B.C. opposed to Hellenism and devoted to the strict observance of the ritual law