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Glossary of Terms
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Atrocity |
savagely cruel acts toward enemy civilians or prisoners by a military force. |
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Catastrophe |
a momentous tragic event, ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin; a sudden and widespread disaster. |
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Holocaust |
1933-1945, the mass murder of Jews organized and implemented by the Nazis. Other groups such as Gypsies, handicapped, homosexuals, and Slavs were also persecuted and often murdered. |
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Kristallnacht (November Pogrom) |
literally, Night of Broken Glass, November 9-10, 1938, a pogrom ordered by the Nazis. Throughout Germany and Austria, synagogues, Jewish institutions and businesses were burned and destroyed. About 35,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps. |
| Memorial |
something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or periodic observance. |
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Monument
| something built or placed to commemorate a person, event, etc. |
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Night of the Long Nights |
June 30, 1934, arrests and assassinations of the leaders of the SA (the Brown Shirts), foremost the chief Ernst Roehm, by Hitler, the SS (the Black Shirts), and the Wehrmacht (German armed forces). |
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Pogrom |
state sponsored destruction and massacre of the Jews. |
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Yom HaShoah |
Day of Remembrance when memorial services commemorate the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. Yom HaShoah 2003 is Tuesday, April 29th. |
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