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![Illustration from an antisemitic children's primer. [LCID: 10640c]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/4c6348d1-d3e6-4be3-aae5-b12761f4f20a.jpg)
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Antisemitism
The term antisemitism was coined only in the nineteenth century, but anti-Jewish hatred and Judeophobia (fear of Jews) date back to ancient times and have a variety of causes.
![Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz presents evidence during the Einsatzgruppen Trial. [LCID: 09918]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/b8542ad8-3e73-4b7c-a368-2dcbc971fa85.jpg)
![Family members say goodbye to a child through a fence at the ghetto's central prison where children, the sick, and the elderly were ... [LCID: 89772]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/272dbc14-8a78-4af5-b2c7-84e1479e6e15.jpg)
![Entrance gate to the Riga ghetto. This photograph was taken from outside the ghetto fence. [LCID: 25137]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/59adc0f1-6c00-4915-8069-e3862f9be765.jpg)
![Deportation of Romani (Gypsy) families from Vienna to Poland. [LCID: 22005]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/bd14360a-6cc2-4b64-8c68-32430f2350ee.jpg)
![View of the Natzweiler concentration camp. 1945. [LCID: 29130]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/75d6d610-b8ee-4ba2-899c-34218f62040d.jpg)
![John Perry, a movie photographer with Unit 129, films GIs of the 290th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division, and 4th Cavalry ... [LCID: sc116]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/074cf38a-6408-4da5-8177-c64eea275e3a.jpg)
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