Language Arts | English Mr. Jeffers

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 a standardized mental picture that describes an oversimplified opinion or prejudiced attitude; a label of identity placed on a person or group of people, e.g. “Jock” or “Prep.”

 An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason— oftentimes regarding racial, religious, or national groups.

 Hatred or intolerance of another “race” or people from a different ethnic background.

 Prejudice, hostility, or discrimination against Jews.

 The deliberate and systematic killing of a national, racial, political, or cultural group

 The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II

 The German state secret police during the Nazi regime between It was notorious for its brutal methods.

 the exercise of power in a cruel or unjust manner.

 an organized attack or massacre, especially targeting Jews.

 a member of the National Socialist German Worker’s party in Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized control of the country, disallowed all opposition, promoted anti-Semitism, and Hitler’s supremacy. The party was abolished in 1945.

“Hitler is building. Help him. Buy German goods.”

 Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely in order to either help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, or nation.

 The act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.

 The act of clearing out or doing away with products or commodities. In the Holocaust, this term was applied to the clearing out of Jews from ghettos to the concentration camps or the gassing of Jews within the death camps.

Bridge over Chlodna street connecting two sides of the Warsaw Ghetto.

 A walled-off section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.

View of a section of the barracks and fence at Auschwitz in 1945 during liberation.

 A guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, Jews, prisoners, et cetera, especially any camps created by Nazis prior to and during World War II.

 The act of gaining equal rights or full social or economic opportunities for a certain group of people.  In WWII, this refers to the liberation of Jews and other oppressed people from the concentration camps.

 A concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed.  There were six death camps during World War II: Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Madjanek, Chelmno, and Belzec

 A fair and objective attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality differ from one’s own.

 Exclusion from social acceptance, privileges, rights, and friendship.

 A person who believes in a system of government based on the holding of all property and goods in common; the government actually owns all property and distributes it to the people. The Soviet Union was a communist country during WWII.

 A person who lives in a social system in which a community owns property, goods, and land together.

 People that have entered into an alliance, unity, league, marriage, et cetera.  From an American perspective, in WWII, the allies were comprised of the United States, France, Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales), and Russia.

Entrance to Auschwitz I: “Arbeit Macht Frei” means “Work Makes You Free.”

 A network of concentration and death camps built by Nazis and located in Poland. Auschwitz was the biggest of the concentration camps and accounted for approximately1,100,000 deaths of innocent people, 90% of whom were Jews.

 A person present but not involved; a chance spectator; an onlooker

 A code phrase for a plan to destroy all Jewish people. The architect of the plan was one of Hitler’s right-hand men: Heinrich Himmler.

 The unjust, untrue rumor that Hitler used to blame Jews for all unemployment, the loss of World War I, and any other serious problem that Germany faced. The Nazis spread propaganda all around Germany to convince gentiles that “The Big Lie” was true.

 The alliance between three fascist nations during World War II: Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Axis Forces were the enemy of the United States.