Holocaust Flashcards

3305659993	genocide	Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group	0
3305659994	holocaust	A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.	1
3305660282	crematorium	a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes	2
3305660283	final solution	Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people	3
3305662747	disgrace	a state of dishonor	4
3305669652	tolerance	Acceptance	5
3305671741	oppression	prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control	6
3305672245	bystander	The tendency for individuals to be less likely to assist in an emergency situation when other people are present.	7
3305674347	aryan	Germanic people seen as the master race	8
3305677864	kristallnacht	(Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews.	9
3305679634	concentration camps	prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.	10
3305680247	perpetrator	the one who committed the act	11
3305681257	collaborator	A person who assists the enemy	12
3305682560	synagogue	Jewish place of worship	13
3305702687	liberation	A state of freedom reached after a struggle	14
3325178627	antisemitism	Prejudice against Jews	15
3325204214	ghetto	During the Middle Aes, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.	16
3325204215	neglect	negligence	17