Holocaust

aryans

• Hitler's "pure-blooded" Germans

Groups targeted by the Nazis

• Jews, undesirables, weak, gypsies, homosexuals, outspoken

Nuremberg Laws

• Robbed Jews of their citizenship, banned marriage with non-Jews, defined a Jew as anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent

Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler

• The group responsible for the Holocaust

Genocide

• Term for killing an entire race, political, or cultural group of people

"Final Solution"

• Term used for Hitler's plan to totally destroy all Jewish people

Ghettos

• Overcrowded part of the city into which Jewish people were forced to stay with the purpose of starving them

Concentration camps

• Prison camps where healthy people were enslaved and forced to work until they dropped dead from exhaustion, disease, or starvation

Auschwitz

• Located in Poland, the largest death camp

Gas chambers

• Where men, women and children died in the death camp

Crematoriums

• Huge ovens in which the remains the murdered Jews were burned. "I have never forgotten that smell", said a survivor

The Holocaust

• Planned destruction of the Jewish people

Nuremberg Trials

• Held from November 1945 - October 1946, 19 men found guilty, 12 sentenced to death.

Anti-Semitism

• hatred of Jewish people

kristellnacht

• rampage of Nazi mobs attacking jews in their homes and on streets and destroyed thousands of businesses

Zionist

• Jews that wanted to return to their homeland (Israel) and make it their independent homeland

Balfour Declaration

• a declaration from the British that said that they would find the Jewish people a homeland

United Nations

• An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Universal Declaration) is an international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.

intifada

• The Uprising" against Israel by some Palestinians