Holocaust Flashcards

(37 cards)

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Policy of “mercy killing” the elderly and handicapped

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Euthanasia

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The section of a city in which the Jews were forced to live

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Ghetto

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Roll call area inside concentration, labor, and death camps

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Appelplatz

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An innocent person blamed for the problems of another

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Scapegoat

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5
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The systematic elimination of a people or nation

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Genocide

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6
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Discrimination or persecution of Jews

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Anti-Semitism

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7
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German for Jews

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Juden

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Steps of a genocide

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  1. Denial of justice
  2. Persecution
  3. Isolation
  4. Dehumanization
  5. Violence
  6. Mass Execution
  7. Denial
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9
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Furnaces where human bodies were burned

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Crematorium

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10
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SS killing units that sought out and murdered Jews in the Soviet Union

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Einsatzgruppen

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Secret police

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Gestapo

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12
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Head of Jewish council established by Nazis in each ghetto

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Judenrat

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13
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The nazi considered this the “superior race”

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Aryan

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14
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What does the word holocaust mean

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Burnt hole

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15
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The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz

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Zyklon-B

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Items piled at train station in Schindler’s list

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Glasses, photos, clothes, shoes, teeth, luggage

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What splash of color does Schindler see

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What do the women do to their faces and why? Schindlers list

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Rub blood from their fingers onto it to make them look healthy

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What does Schindler give for the women to be back in his custody

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Diamonds, jewels

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What do the workers make in Poland

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Pots and pans, ammunition shells

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What do the workers make to show their gratitude for Schindler

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A ring made out of a mans filling

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Purple triangle badge

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Jehovah witness

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Pink triangle badge

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Brown triangle badge

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Green triangle badge
Criminals
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Red triangle badge
Political prisoners
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Ways the jews were persecuted
Destroying business, homes, and synagogues Took people in for "questioning" Property taken by gov Jews began wearing yellow stars Jews had to turn in bicycles Jews forbidden from driving, taking the train, or walking in front of a German
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Ways the jews were dehumanized
Nazi loaded jews on trains like cattle Called jews by number not name Placed in camps without regard to family Nazis were told to treat jews like animals Harsh work, little sleep, little food, little clothing
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Ways the jews were executed
Gassed, electrocuting, mass cremation, firing squad, hanging, buried alive
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Auschwitz
Poland concentration camp | Where dr. Mengele made the ultimate human labratory, 7,000+ experimented on
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Ravensbruck
All female German concentration camp
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Karl Koch
Butcher of buchenwald
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Dr. Joseph Mengele
"The Angel of Death", Auschwitz, multiple births, perfect aryan specimen, tested on twins to see if one was hurt the other would feel it, Roma gypsies to prove their blood was different, TB testing to help German soldiers
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Simon Wiesenthal
Nazi hunter brought many back for trial
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Nuremburg
1945-1946, international tribunal, 4 crimes, 1 conspiracy to wage aggressive war 2 waging aggressive war(jail) 3 war crimes 4 crimes against humanity
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Dachau
Political concentration camp
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Codename for extermination of the Jews
Final solution