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- Selections
- Selected people to be killed and who would stay
- Oscar Schindler
- Protected his Jews that worked for him.
- Anti-Semitism
- prejudice or hatred of Jews
- Josef Goebbles
- In charge of the Nazi propaganda.
- Work Refugee Board
- Worked to help Jewish refugees and to protect Jews in Country allied to Germany
- Railroad cars
- Would overpack people into a small train car.
- Deportation
- Taking Jews away somewhere
- Judenrate
- Jewish council who tried to protect Jewish lives
- Aryan Race
- The perfect German race
- quota
- strict limits on imagration
- Concentration camp
- Jews were taken there. over 10,000 in all
- Aryanization
- dismissal of Jewish workers
- Star of david
- What jews had to wear on their clothes to show they were jewish
- totalitarianism
- which a single party without opposition rules over political, economic, social, and cultural life
- Herman Goring
- #2 man behind hitler. Told Heydrich to set up conference for the final solution
- Zyklon-B gas chambers
- People would think they were taking a shower and then gas would come out of the vents. After that they were cremated.
- Allied powers
- countries who fought Germany (Brittian, France, Russia, US...)
- Dominican Republic
- Wa the only one to do something about the Jewish refugees in the Evian Conference.
- Josef Mengele
- Also known as the Angel of Death. Main Doctor at Auschwitz. He did the steralization of Jews, and liked to work with twins.
- demonization
- to make a person or group of people look evil
- collaborators
- someone who cooperates with the enemy
- Gestapo
- Eliminated opposing jews
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Warsaw Jews Tried to attack the Nazi's. Worked for a little then the Nazi's set the Ghetto on fire.
- Boycott
- not to associate with a certain group
- Hitler
- Grew up with anti semitism in Austria
- Voyage of the Saint Louis
- Brought Jews to Cuba but were not allowed entrance. Then passengers were split between England, Belgium, holland, and france
- Passover
- The holiday when jews celebrate their liberation from slavery
- pogrom
- a violent attack on the Jews that the government did not prevent
- Genocide
- The killing of one group
- racism
- belief in racial superiority
- Scapegoat
- a person who is blamed for the mistakes or crimes of others
- Varian Fry
- Wrote for american Journal. Raised money and went on secret mission. Smuggled out people from france
- refugee
- a person who has been forced to flee their homeland for reasons of safety
- Heinrich Himmler
- Rose to the highest position. Carried out final solution.
- Final solution
- The extermination of all European Jews
- S.S
- Hitlers guards
- Raoul Wallenerg
- Worked for american refugge board. Distributed passports
- Propaganda
- to use advertisements to make things look good or evil. Nazis controlled books, radios, newspapers, and education.
- Ghetto
- the Jewish population was required to live. Environment of isolation
- labor camps
- where jews worked
- Voelkisch movement
- a movement made up of people who thought Jews were not German
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Chaired the Wansee conference. 2nd after himler
- Einsatzgruppen
- Units assigned to kill jews
- Wansee
- THe meeting that organized the final solution
- Eugenics
- the proposed improvement of the human species by encouraging or permitting reproduction of only those people with genetic characteristics judged desirable.
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Tracked down Eichmann. Was a Nazi hunter
- Adolf Eichmann
- In charge of transportation of Jews and extermination. Fled to Argentina then later brought to Isreal to be tried and executed. Only person to be executed by Isreal.
- Auschwitz
- Biggest concentration camp
- Extermination camps
- Jews are taken here for the sole purpose of being killed
- Nuremberg Laws
- Took all of the Jews civil rights away
- Kristallnacht
- Night of Broken Glass. when Jews were persecuted and bussneses, synogogues and books were destroyed.
- Rabi Stephen wise
- Jewish Rabi, pleaded to the president to do something. Set up World Jewish Congress