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The Jewish New Year begins the High Holy Days and a time of reflection and soul searching.
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the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years
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the monotheistic religion of the Jews.
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a prison camp, especially one for political prisoners or prisoners of war, in which many die from poor conditions and treatment or from mass execution.
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a member of the national socialist German worker's party
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Conference of high-ranking German officers, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, to finalize plans for the destruction of European Jews.
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destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war
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Large, sealed rooms (usually with shower nozzles) used for murdering prisoners of concentration camps; many people were led into gas chambers with the belief they were going in to take a shower.
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Language spoken by many Jews in Eastern Europe; a combination of German, Hebrew and dialects of the countries in which Jews were living.
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an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
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Himmler’s model camp located outside Munich, opened March 20, 1933; initially designed to hold political prisoners.
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a member of the ancient Aryan people.
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Small boxes containing four scriptural passages worn during daily morning prayers, except on Sabbaths and festivals.
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a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area
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Death camp located in a suburb of Lublin, Poland where 360,000 people were shot, beaten, starved or gassed to death.
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First death camp to use gassing and first place located outside Soviet territory in which Jews were systematically killed as part of “Final Solution.'
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a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949
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a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham.
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originally Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, extended to Japan when it entered the war.
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Church council
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