discrimination, hatred, prejudice, or hostility towards Jewish people

town in SW Poland and site of a Nazi concentration camp

the countries that fought together against the Allies in WWII – the main three countries were Germany, Japan, and Italy

a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, minorities, political opponents – used for confinement and persecution of enemies

a concentration camp in which inmates are unlikely to survive

between 1944-1945, thousands of prisoners were forced to walk from concentration camps outside Germany to those inside of Germany

to deprive of human qualities or attributes – making the person or people seem less than human through mal-treatment (name calling, taking away rights, slanted propaganda, etc.)

taking people from their home and forcing them to live somewhere else

a social and political ideology that says the nation is the highest priority (rather than personal or individual freedoms)

Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich

Adolf Hitler’s title in Nazi Germany: it means leader

Nazi euphemism for the deliberate killings of institutionalized physically, mentally, and emotionally handicapped people. The program began in 1939 with German non-Jewish people as the first victims. The program was later extended to the Jewish people.

an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas (Zyklon B)

deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group

German secret police

sections of the city that is thickly populated with people of the same ethnic or minority group. The largest was in Warsaw Poland during WWII.

systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during WWII (means complete destruction of life, usually by fire)

the night of November 9-10, 1938, Nazis killed Jews and destroyed their property

political party under Hitler, controlled Germany in 1933, dictatorship, believed in the supremacy of Hitler, the superior German race, and anti-Semitism

used as a symbol of Judaism. During WWII Jews had to wear it on their person so they could be identified as Jewish

generalizations or assumptions that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group based on an image

a Jewish house of worship

symbol of the Nazi party used as their emblem