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| Discrimination or persecution of Jews. |
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| Roll call area inside concentration, labor, and death camps. |
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| Racial term used by Nazis to describe a "race" they believed to be superior. It has no biological validity. |
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| Hebrew for "flight"; name given to those who aided Jews in their escape to Palestine after the Holocaust. |
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| Place where political prisoners were kept. |
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| Furnaces where human bodies were burned. |
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| The forced removal of Jews in Nazi- occupied lands to concentration camps. |
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| Nazi centers of murder and extermination. |
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| The marches imposed upon prisoners by the Nazis in order to keep them from liberation by the Allied forces. |
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| SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the Soviet Union. |
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| The policy of "mercy killing" the old and handicapped. |
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| The Nazi term for the annigilation of the Jews in Europe. |
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| The systematic elimination of a people or nation. |
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| Abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police). |
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| The section of a city where Jews were forced to live. |
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| Term used to refer to the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Also included extermination of Gypsies and Poles. |
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| Head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in each Jewish ghetto. |
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| "Night of the Broken." Nazi- organized riot the Jews on Nov. 9-10, 1938. |
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| Acronym for the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
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| Organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people. |
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| An attitude toward a person or group of people formed with adequate information. |
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| Practice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of race. |
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| An innocent person blamed for the problems of another. |
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| The procedure used to determine who would live and who would die in death and labor camps. Usually carried out by doctors. |
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| Symbol of the Nazi party; originally an ancient religious symbol. |
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| Nazi term for "supermen," the racial ideal |
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| Yellow, cloth Star of David sewn to clothing to identify Jews. |
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| The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers at the death camps. |
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| German term that menas "pure" or "clean" of Jews. |
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