The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Unit Vocabulary

prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews

• genocide

• persecution

• antisemitism

• liberation

One who is present at an event or who knows about its occurrence and chooses to ignore it. That is, he or she neither participates in, nor responds to it.

• liberation

• stereotype

• resistor

• bystander

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

The deliberate, systematic annihilation of a racial, religious, cultural, or political group of people. In genocide people are persecuted and murdered because of membership in the targeted victim group.

• genocide

• antisemitism

• persecution

• stereotype

The discovery of the camps by Allied forces who stumbled upon them while pursuing the German army. Setting those in the camp free.

• victim

• resistor

• liberation

• perpetrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.3

One who does something that is morally wrong or criminal.

• bystander

• perpetrator

• persecution

• victim

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.4.3

Act of causing others to suffer because of difference in ethnic or cultural background, lifestyle, religion, or political beliefs.

• persecution

• antisemitism

• liberation

• genocide

One who opposes those in power for the preservation of one’s own human dignity or the dignity of persecuted others.

• victim

• bystander

• stereotype

• resistor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.3

An oversimplified generalization about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences

• antisemitism

• genocide

• persecution

• stereotype

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

One who is intended for persecution or death; also known as a “target.”

• bystander

• victim

• liberation

• resistor

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4