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