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The Diary of Anne Frank
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English
7th Grade
10/27/2011

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Term
Annihilation
Definition
Complete Destruction.
Term
Anti- Semitism
Definition
Anti-Jewish actions, sentiments, or statements.
Term
Bureaucratic
Definition
Originating in a government office; bureaucrats rigidly follow rules, forms, and routines.
Term
Central Act of State
Definition
A major government policy to which the resources and energies of a country are directed; a policy with wide-ranging national and international condequences.
Term
Expropriate
Definition
To trnsfer ownership from another person to oneself.
Term
Genocide
Definition
The deliberate killing of an entire group of people.
Term
Ghetto
Definition
The section of many European cities in which Jews had traditionally been confined from the Middle Ages though the early 1880s. By the 1930s when Hitler came to power, Jewish ghettos in Europe were a thing of the past. They were started again by the Nazis and their followers.
Term
Persecute
Definition
To opress
Term
Annihilation
Definition
Complete Destruction.
Term
Anti- Semitism
Definition
Anti-Jewish actions, sentiments, or statements.
Term
Bureaucratic
Definition
Originating in a government office; bureaucrats rigidly follow rules, forms, and routines.
Term
Central Act of State
Definition
A major government policy to which the resources and energies of a country are directed; a policy with wide-ranging national and international condequences.
Term
Expropriate
Definition
To trnsfer ownership from another person to oneself.
Term
Genocide
Definition
The deliberate killing of an entire group of people.
Term
Ghetto
Definition
The section of many European cities in which Jews had traditionally been confined from the Middle Ages though the early 1880s. By the 1930s when Hitler came to power, Jewish ghettos in Europe were a thing of the past. They were started again by the Nazis and their followers.
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Persecute
Definition
To opress by harassing and torturing.
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Systematic
Definition
Carried out in a step-by-step manner
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