Holocaust Vocab Flashcards
hostility to or prejudice against Jews
Antisemitism
a person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part
Bystander
furnaces constructed to burn the bodies of humans in concentration and death camps
Crematoria
a placer where large numbers of people are deliberately imprisoned and forced into work or waiting for mass execution
Concentration Camps
a prison camp in which many people 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 prejudice treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the ground of age, race, gender, or religion
Discrimination
a nice way of saying something terrible
Euphemism
the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews
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
Liberation
a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Nazi
hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs-kill/suffer
Persecution
