Milkweed Vocabulary from Concept Maps

What is a concentration camp?

• labor camps where Nazis put Jewish people and those they felt were "undesirable." People were overworked, underfed, and lived in cramped, unclean quarters.

• a day camp for the Nazi youth to learn about Hilter and the Nazis.

• a place for students to concentrate on their assignments.

Holocaust

• Another name for WWII

• The murder of approximately six million Jews and millions of other groups targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators.

• The internment of Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

genocide

• acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, including killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

• the killing of 5 or more people in one event

• The killing of 6 million Jews as well as other targeted groups during WWII

antisemitism

• The murder of 6 million Jews during WWII.

• Prejudice or discrimination against Jews.

• singling out one group for their superiority

ghetto

• death camps where Nazis killed 6 million Jews and millions of other people during WWII

• places where Japanese Americans were held after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

• small sections of towns and cities where Jews were kept by the Nazis

concentration camp

• a major instrument of terror, control, punishment, and killing by the Nazis

• one of 6 camps where Jews were sent to be killed during WWII

• areas where Japanese Americans were held after Pearl Harbor was bombed

Nazi

• the Germans

• Adolf Hitler and his minions

• the German national socialist political party that emerged in after World War I

prejudice

• getting to know someone before making a decision about them

• making a decision about a person or group of people without sufficient knowledge, usually based on stereotypes

• thinking that all people are the same based on common characteristics

dehumanization

• humiliating someone as a way to bully them

• the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII

• reducing the target group to objects or beings not worthy of human rights

perpetrator

• Someone who does something that is morally wrong or criminal.

• Someone who takes others to court.

• Someone who does what is right even when everyone else does what is wrong.