Holocaust Flashcards
Anti Semetism
Prejudice Against Jews
Apathy
Lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting
Aryan Race
In Nazi use people who had northern European racial ancestry -Especially those with blue eyes and blonde hair
Concentration Camps
Work in death camps located in Germany and Poland to imprison and exterminate jews, gypsies, political descendants, and others that the Nazis fell were undesirable
Discrimination
Special treatment either in favor of or against a person or thing because of the group they belong to instead of their individual qualities
empathy
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another based on similar experience. you feel empathy because you’ve been there.
Final solution
Nazi code name for the plan to exterminate/kill the Jews of Europe - the “Final solution of the Jewish question”
Genocide
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, National, or cultural group of people
Ghetto
section of the city in which Jews are forced to live surrounded by barbed wire or walls and, from which they are forbidden to leave
Nazi
A member or supporter of the national socialists party in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.
Oppression
Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control
Persicution
The poor treatment of someone because of their race or their political or religious beliefs
Prejudice
Unreasonable feelings. Opinions, or attitudes, especially hostile ones, about a racial, religiouse or national group
Propaganda
Ideas or claims people spread deliberately in order to help themselves or hurt an opponent
Scapegoat
An innocent person or group that is blamed for the problems or troubles of another