Lesson 6 Vocabulary
Auschwitz
Concentration and extermination camp in Upper Silesia, Poland, 37 miles west of Krakow. Established in 1940 as a concentration camp, it became an extermination camp in early 1942.
dehumanization
This is the process of depriving human beings of their individuality and other human qualities or attributes.
extinction
The act or process of coming to an end or dying out, the extinction of a species. For example, Adolph Hitler attempted to cause the extinction of all people of Jewish descent.
genocide
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, national, or cultural group.
ghetto
A section of a city, especially a thickly populaed slum area, inhabited predominately by members of an ethnic or minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures or hardships. In World War II a ghetto was a specific area of the city which all Jews were required to live and was often sealed by a wall of some type effectively making it a prison.
holocaust
The destruction of some 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in Europe between the years 1933-1945. The Holocaust is characterized by brutal torture and inhumane practices as well as murder on a massive scale.
propaganda
Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution or nation.
Concentration and extermination camp in Upper Silesia, Poland, 37 miles west of Krakow. Established in 1940 as a concentration camp, it became an extermination camp in early 1942.
dehumanization
This is the process of depriving human beings of their individuality and other human qualities or attributes.
extinction
The act or process of coming to an end or dying out, the extinction of a species. For example, Adolph Hitler attempted to cause the extinction of all people of Jewish descent.
genocide
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, national, or cultural group.
ghetto
A section of a city, especially a thickly populaed slum area, inhabited predominately by members of an ethnic or minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures or hardships. In World War II a ghetto was a specific area of the city which all Jews were required to live and was often sealed by a wall of some type effectively making it a prison.
holocaust
The destruction of some 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in Europe between the years 1933-1945. The Holocaust is characterized by brutal torture and inhumane practices as well as murder on a massive scale.
propaganda
Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution or nation.