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Allies The nations fighting Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during World War II, primarily Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United
Antisemitism Dislike or hatred of the
Auschwitz-Birkenau The largest and most notorious concentration, labor and death camp where 1.6 million died; located near Oswiecim,
ConcentrationCamp Camps in which Jews were imprisoned by the Nazis, located in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. There were three different kinds of camps: transit, labor and extermination. Many prisoners in concentration camps died within months of arriving from violence or
Crematorium Ovens built in concentration camps to burn and dispose of the large number of murdered
Dachau Himmler’s model camp located outside Munich, opened March 20, 1933; initially designed to hold political
FinalSolution Term used by the Nazis to describe their plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population of
Gestapo The secret state police of the German army, organized to stamp out any political
Ghetto A section of a city where Jews were forced to live, usually with several families living in one house, separated from the rest of the city by walls or wire fences, and used primarily as a station for gathering Jews for deportation to concentration
Holocaust Term first used in the late 1950s to describe the systematic torture and murder of approximately six million European Jews and millions of other "undesirables" by the Nazi regime from 1933 to
Jews Persons identifying themselves with the Jewish community or as followers of the Jewish religion or
Mein Kampf Hitler’s autobiography in which he outlined his ideas, beliefs and plans for the future of
Nazi Name for members of the NSDAP, National Socialist Democratic Workers Party, who believed in the idea of Aryan
Shoah The Hebrew word for
Swastika Once an ancient symbol used to ward off evil spirits, the Nazis adopted it as their official
VersaillesTreaty Peace treaty ending the First World War, creating many of the issues of bitterness between European countries and, especially, a feeling of resentment by
WarsawGhetto Largest ghetto in Poland covering 100 square blocks where approximately 500,000 Jews were contained from 1939 until May