holocaust Flashcards
Adolf Hitler
leader of the Nazi party and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945
antisemitism
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
Auschwitz
one of the largest concentration camps during WWII
Concentration camp
where large amounts of people are deliberately imprisoned in a small area with inadequate facilities and conditions.
dehumanization
to treat someone as though they are not human
the act/process of denying ones humanness - their human qualities and rights.
discrimination
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different people (sex, nationality, age, race)
Eugenics
the science of improving the human population by controlled breeding to increase occurance of desired heritable characteristics.
Euthanasia
the painless killing of a patient suffering of incurable and painful disease or irreversible coma
Extermination camp
designed and built by Nazi Germany to systematically kill - gassing, mass execution, extreme work in starvation
Final solution
The Nazi program for extermination of all Jews in Europe
Genocide
The deliberate killing of people from a particular racial, cultural or political group.
Ghetto
An area of a city usually established in poorer sections called a Jewish quarter where most Jews were forced to reside
a holocaust
an event or situation in which many people are killed and many things re destroyed especially by fire
the holocaust
the murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany and their collaborators. Between the years of 1933 (Hitler elected Chancellor) and 1945.
Liberation
the act or process of freeing someone or something from another’s control
