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- "Canada"
- large warehouses where confiscated prisoner property was stored
- atom bomb
- powerful weapon created from the splitting of atoms. It was used by Harrry S. Truman on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII
- V-J Day
- "Victory in Japan Day" when Japan surrendered (September 2, 1945)
- War Bonds
- certificates sold by the US government to pay for the war
- Death Camp
- a camp existing primarily for the quick killing of prisoners
- Zyklon-B
- Hydrogen cyanide crystals used to gas prisoners
- relocation camps
- special camps in the US where Japanese Americans were detained after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
- Mischlenge
- those with mixed Jewish and Gentile blood
- Standing Cells
- a punishment cell 35 x 35 inches, occupied by four prisoners. After standing all night, they joined work crews during days
- Judenfrei
- slogan meaning "cleasened of Jews", used by Nazis after every Jew was either dead or removed from an area
- Death Wall
- where firing squad executions took place
- concentration camps
- prison camps established by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party for Jews and other political prisoners during the war
- Holocaust
- mass murder of European Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
- d-day
- invasion of Normandy, France, by the Allies (June 6, 1944)
- Aryan
- in Nazi terminology, the Master Race
- ghetto
- section of city inhabited only by Jews
- Swastika
- emblem on the Nazi flag. The swastika was a cross with ends bent at a right angle
- final solution
- name given to the German goal of killing all European Jews
- V-E Day
- "Vicotry in Europe Day" when Germany surrendered (May 8, 1945)
- Hiroshima
- Japanese city on which the first atomic bomb was dropped (August 6, 1945)
- Kristallnacht
- Night of the Broken Glass; November 9, 1938, when mobs thoughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorised Jews
- Nagasaki
- Japenese city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945)
- ZOB
- Jewish Fighting Organization
- Nuremberg laws
- 1935 laws defining the staus of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood
- Anti-Semitism
- prejudice or hostiliy towards Jews
- "Moslems"
- the "walking dead" of concentration camps who looked and acted like zombies
- Pearl Harbor
- american base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japnese planes on Decemeber 7, 1941. the bombing of this forced the US to enter the war
- "Juda Verrecke!"
- a favorite Nazi slogan that meant Death to Juadaism
- Patriotic
- showing love and suppport for one's own country
- Shtetl
- small Jewish communities in Poland
- ration
- to allow only certain amounts of food, gasoline, and other goods to each person
- Home Front
- term given to the US mainland during the war
- Julag
- concentration camp with only Jewish inmates
- dictator
- a person who has complete power and authority over a country
- Zionism
- movement among Jews to establish a Jewish State in Palestine