Holocaust Vocabulary
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- Anti-Semitism
- hatred of the Jews
- Adolph Hitler
- chancellor of Germany since January 30, 1933, and planned an carried out the Holocaust
- fuhrer
- absolute dictator of Germany
- National Socialist German Worker's Party
- Hitler's party that took away people's money and peronal possessions, open mail, listen in on telephone conversation, and get homes without a warrant
- Nuremberg Laws
- laws that deprived Jews of German citizenship, calling them subjects instead
- gehttos
- small sections of a city where Jews were forced to live in cramped quarters with little or no food, electricity, water, or heat
- Mein Kampf
- a book Hitler wrote stating his beliefs about Jews and his program to destroy them
- Reichstag
- German parliament buildings set on fire in February 1933
- bystander
- a person who stands by and observes an event but does not participate
- Final Solution
- 1942 Nazi program that began the complete physical destruction of the Jews
- righteous
- during the time of the Holocaust, people who made the right moral choice to help, even though it was dangerous
- Holocaust
- name given to the mass murder of six million Jewish people in Europe during World War II
- Kristallnacht
- The night of broken glass, destroys 7,000 Jewish businesses, sets fire to 900 synagogues, deports 30,000 Jewish men to concentration camps, and kills 91 Jews.