Holocaust

Question 1

Adolf Hitler

Answer 1

A German Nazi dictator during World War 2

Question 2

Anti Semitism

Answer 2

Hostility or prejudice against Jews

Question 3

Auschwitz

Answer 3

One of the largest concentration camps from the Holocaust during World War 2

Question 4

Concentration Camps

Answer 4

A place where large numbers of people are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area (with inadequate facilities), sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution (usually by gassing)

Question 5

Dehumanisation

Answer 5

The denial of humaneness to other people

Question 6

Discrimination

Answer 6

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, usually on the grounds of race, age or gender

Question 7

Eugenics

Answer 7

The science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics

Question 8

Euthanasia

Answer 8

The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma

Question 9

Extermination Camp

Answer 9

Camps designed and built by Nazi Germany during World War 2 to systematically kill millions, usually by gassing, although also mass executions and through extreme work under starvation conditions

Question 10

Final Solution

Answer 10

The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews (resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews)

Question 11

Genocide

Answer 11

The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation

Question 12

Ghetto

Answer 12

Restricting a group to an isolated or segregated area

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Holocaust

Answer 13

The killing of many Jews and others by the Nazis during World War 2

Question 14

Liberation

Answer 14

Setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery or oppression

Question 15

Nazi Party

Answer 15

A political group that ruled Germany between 1933 and 1945

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Pogrom

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An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular Jews in Russia or eastern Europe

Question 17

Police State

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A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens activities

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Prejudice

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A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

Question 19

Racism

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The belief that all members of a race possess characteristics specific to that race, especially when distinguishing a race inferior or superior to another

Question 20

Refugee

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A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster

Question 21

Resistance

Answer 21

A group of Jewish people who attempted armed resistance against the Nazis