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Jewish Ghetto Vocab
Question | Answer |
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fenced off or bricked in areas of a city where Jews were confined prior to deportation to death camps | ghettos |
the means of sustaining life; nourishment | sustenance |
the chemical agent Nazis used to gas Jews during WW II | Zyklon B |
the government of France that collaborated with the Nazis | Vichy Government |
living space | lebenstraum |
the chief religious official in a synagogue | Rabbi |
a building in which corpses are cremated (burned) | crematorium |
present within a localized area or specific to a specific group of people | endemic |
charmingly simple and picturesque | idyllic |
emperor or tyrant; comes from the word Caesar | Czar |
a small Jewish community or village in eastern Europe | shtetl |
the act of putting in prison or another enclosure | incarceration |
a highly infectious disease transmitted by fleas or lice; characterized by rash, high fever, delirium, severe headache, & depression | typhus |
a Jewish governing group operating in ghettos and responsible for health, sanitation, and assigning people to work forces | Judenrat |