Language Arts | English
Mr. Jeffers
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
a standardized mental picture
that describes an oversimplified
opinion or prejudiced attitude; a
label of identity placed on a
person or group of people, e.g.
“Jock” or “Prep.”
 An
unfavorable opinion or feeling
formed beforehand or without
knowledge, thought, or reason—
oftentimes regarding racial, religious, or
national groups.
Hatred
or intolerance of another
“race” or people from a different
ethnic background.
Prejudice, hostility, or
discrimination against Jews.
The
deliberate and systematic
killing of a national, racial,
political, or cultural group
The
systematic mass slaughter of
European Jews in Nazi
concentration camps during
World War II
The
German state secret police
during the Nazi regime between
1933-1945. It was notorious for its
brutal methods.
the
exercise of power in a cruel
or unjust manner.
an
organized attack or massacre,
especially targeting Jews.
a
member of the National Socialist
German Worker’s party in
Germany, which in 1933, under
Adolf Hitler, seized control of the
country, disallowed all opposition,
promoted anti-Semitism, and
Hitler’s supremacy. The party was
abolished in 1945.
“Hitler is building. Help him.
Buy German goods.”
Information, ideas, or
rumors
deliberately spread widely in
order to either help or harm a
person, group, movement,
institution, or nation.
The
act or power of resisting,
opposing, or withstanding.
The
act of clearing out or doing
away with products or
commodities. In the Holocaust, this
term was applied to the clearing
out of Jews from ghettos to the
concentration camps or the
gassing of Jews within the death
camps.
Bridge over Chlodna street connecting
two sides of the Warsaw Ghetto.
A
walled-off section of a city in
which all Jews were required to
live.
View of a section of the barracks and fence at
Auschwitz in 1945 during liberation.
A
guarded compound for the
detention or imprisonment of
members of ethnic minorities,
political opponents, Jews,
prisoners, et cetera, especially
any camps created by Nazis
prior to and during World War II.
The
act of gaining equal rights or
full social or economic
opportunities for a certain group of
people.
In WWII, this refers to the liberation
of Jews and other oppressed
people from the concentration
camps.
A
concentration camp in which the
inmates are unlikely to survive or to
which they have been sent to be
executed.
 There were six death camps during
World War II: Sobibor, Treblinka,
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Madjanek, Chelmno,
and Belzec
A
fair and objective attitude
toward those whose opinions,
practices, race, religion,
nationality differ from one’s own.
Exclusion
from social
acceptance, privileges, rights,
and friendship.
A
person who believes in a
system of government based on
the holding of all property and
goods in common; the
government actually owns all
property and distributes it to the
people. The Soviet Union was a
communist country during WWII.
A
person who lives in a social
system in which a community
owns property, goods, and land
together.
People
that have entered into an
alliance, unity, league, marriage, et
cetera.
From an American perspective, in
WWII, the allies were comprised of
the United States, France, Great
Britain (England, Scotland, and
Wales), and Russia.
Entrance to Auschwitz I: “Arbeit Macht Frei” means
“Work Makes You Free.”
A
network of concentration and death
camps built by Nazis and located in
Poland. Auschwitz was the biggest of the
concentration camps and accounted for
approximately1,100,000 deaths of
innocent people, 90% of whom were
Jews.
A
person present but not
involved; a chance spectator; an
onlooker
A
code phrase for a plan to
destroy all Jewish people. The
architect of the plan was one of
Hitler’s right-hand men: Heinrich
Himmler.
The
unjust, untrue rumor that Hitler
used to blame Jews for all
unemployment, the loss of World
War I, and any other serious
problem that Germany faced. The
Nazis spread propaganda all
around Germany to convince
gentiles that “The Big Lie” was true.
The
alliance between three
fascist nations during World War
II: Germany, Italy, and Japan. The
Axis Forces were the enemy of
the United States.