history- the holocaust Flashcards
Which groups faced persecution during the Holocaust
Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, jehovahs witnesses, disabled, etc
Righteous persons
Non Jews who risked their lives to save Jewish people’s in the Holocaust
Poland
Largest population of Jews -> all 6 death camps locate here for efficiency
Ghettos
Segregated Jewish areas where they lived
Therienstadt ghetto
Red Cross went to ghetto and nazis made everyone out on a play that everything was Great
Warsaw ghetto
Uprisings here
Aushwitz-Birkenau
A combination camp that has many survivors because it was both a death camp and a Work camp
Sobibor
Was turned into a death camp -> Jews tried to blow hole in the wall by slowly bringing gunpowder -> didn’t work bc eventually captured again
Genocide
The intentional Killing of a specific entire people
Holocaust
Systematic murder of over 11 million ppl across Europe over half were Jews
Scapegoat
Blamed Jews for eveyrthing, so they had a reason for killing them
Master race
Pure Germans (aryans)
Boycott
Government-sanctioned boycotts of Jewish stores and businesses
Book burning
Anything that was written by Jews, had enlightenment ideas, or downgraded the German master race
Nuremberg laws
Restrictions against Jews