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Schindler's List
Vocabulary #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Killing Centers | camps maintained to systematically kill Jews |
| Krakow (or Cracow) | the architectural gem of a city in southern Poland where Schindler lived between 1939 and 1944. |
| Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) | The Night of Broken Glass; the night Nazi police and collaborators subjected Jews to an onslaught of anti-Semitic violence |
| Nazism | the political doctrine of the Nazi party which advocated anti-Semitism, racism, militarism, one-party rule, anticommunism, and a rigid authoritarian dictatorship |
| Nazi Party (NSDAP, or National Socialist German Workers= Party) | political party of Hitler |
| Nuremberg Trials | trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by former military opponents of Germany after WWII. |
| Occupied Territories | those nations overrun and occupied by the Nazi government |
| Peer pressure | social pressure to conform to the beliefs and behaviors exerted by those people of about the same age, status, etc. |
| Perpetrators | in the Holocaust, those persons, agencies, or governments who assist in or gain from the persecution of others |
| Prejudice | a negative, inflexible attitude toward a group impervious to evidence or contrary argument, founded on suspicions, ignorance, and irrational hatred |
| Plaszow | a forced labor camp in a Krakow suburb on the site of two Jewish cemeteries |
| Racism | the belief that a racial group is inferior because of biological or cultural traits |
| Resettlement | deportation of Jews to killing centers in Poland |
| Resistance | acts of rebellion, sabotage, and attempts to escape committed by individuals and groups within the concentration camps and ghettos |
| Rescuers | those who helped rescue Jews without regard to personal consequences |
| Righteous Gentile | those Gentiles honored by the state of Israel for their efforts to rescue Jews during the Nazi occupation of Europe |
| Scapegoat | a person, group, or thing that bears the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others |
| Emilie Schindler | Oskar Schindler=s wife |
| SS (Schutzstaffel) | the elite force of the Nazi party whose troops were ideologically indoctrinated and viewed the Jews, and other=s they believed to be sub-human, as worthy of only extermination |
| Stereotyping | attributing to a group a quality or trait possessed by only part of the group |
| Treblinka | a killing center near Warsaw; the graveyard of Warsaw Jewry |
| Wannsee Conference | a meeting of the Nazi bureaucracy and military to coordinate the role of various government agencies in the extermination of the Jews |
| Zegota | a small, unique organization clandestinely established in Nazi-occupied Poland for the purpose of rescuing Jews |
| Zyklon B | hydrogen cyanide, the pesticide used in crystalline form in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek killing centers |
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