fhj Flashcards
hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
Antisemitism
a person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part.
Bystander
a place where a dead person’s body is cremated.
Crematoria
a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.
Concentration Camps
a prison camp, especially one for political prisoners or prisoners of war, in which many die from poor conditions and treatment or from mass execution.
Death Camps
the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.
Dehumanization
the action of deporting a foreigner from a country.
Deportation
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
Discrimination
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Euphemism
the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.
Final Solution
a ruthless, tyrannical leader.
Fuehrer
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Genocide
the act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.
Liberation
a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Nazi
hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
Persecution
