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Genocide

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Killing a group, wipe out a religion,ethnic, or racial group

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Ghettos

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Historically, a part of a city based on ethnicity or religion

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Holocaust

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The period of stat-sponsored, millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler

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Persecution

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Harassment of people based on their race,religion,color, and national origin

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Melancholy

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A deep, pensive, and long lasting sadness

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Liberated

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Freed from enemy occupation

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Propaganda

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Cause or to injure or enhance, may bend facts or does not tell the entire story

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Scapegoat

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A person or group who is given the blame for mistakes or failures of other

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that one’s own ethnic, religious, or political group is superior to all others

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Truncheons

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A short, thick stick carried by someone of authority

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Anti-Semitism

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Hostility or prejudice against people of Jewish ethnicity or religious beliefs

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Dysentery

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An infection of the intestines, which causes death

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Dehumanization

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Taking away the qualities of being a human

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Crematories

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Ovens where bodies were incinerated

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Fascim

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A system of government characterized by a dictatorship

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Kaddish

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A Jewish death prayer praising God

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Compatriot

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A man of the same country

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Talmud

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Writings of Jewish law, interpretation of scripture, and tradition

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Pipel

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Young boy, kept in concentration camp

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Barrack

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A building or group of buildings used to house people

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Hasidic

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Jewish sect founded in the 18th Century

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Kabbalah

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Ancient Jewish mysticism based on the Zohar