English Vocab Test 2

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Beadle

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a minor parish official whose duties include ushering and preserving order at services and sometimes civil functions.

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Synagogue

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the building where a Jewish assembly congregates for religious worship or instruction.

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Deportation

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the removal from a country of an alien whose presence is unlawful or prejudicial.

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Truncheon

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a short and thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer.

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Holocaust

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Holocaust- the mass murder and attempted extermination of Jews by the Nazi regime. (h)olocaust- a mass slaughter of people or destruction on a large scale.

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Gestapo

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the German state, secret police during the Nazi regime. gestapo- a secret-police organization that employs terroristic methods against people suspected of disloyalty.

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Genocide

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the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.

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Ghetto

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a typically poor and impoverished part of a city occupied by a minority group. (a quarter of city in which Jews were formerly required to live).

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Kristallnacht

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"The Night of Broken Glass". On November 9, 1938, nearly 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops ransacked and tens of thousands of Jews were transported from concentration camps.

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Lorry

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a large, heavy motor vehicle for transporting goods or troops.

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Lament

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an expression of grief, sorrow or regret.

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Buna

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the largest sub-concentration camp to Auschwitz.

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Final Solution

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the Nazi's policy to systematically exterminate the Jews during the Third Reich.

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Buchenwald

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one of the largest Nazi concentration camps.

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Nuremburg

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a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 where the Allied powers prosecuted Nazi military leaders, politicians and financers for the crimes of WWII. Or, a city in central Bavaria.

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Vigilance

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the state of being watchful for potential danger or treachery.

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Resistance

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refusal to comply to something or the attempt to prevent it.

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Dysentery

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an infectious disease of the intestines or lower extremities with symptoms of blood-containing diarrhea.

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Trod

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a past tense version of tread; meaning to have stepped on or over.

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Aryan

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white or Caucasian people not of Jewish descent; according to Nazi ideology.

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Void

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a completely empty opening or gap of space.

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Colic

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severe, fluctuating abdominal pain potentially caused by gas or an obstruction of the intestines.

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Kapo

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a prisoner in a concentration camp who supervised labor and other tasks with the consent of the SS guards.

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SS

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a bodyguard and special police force for Hitler and the Nazi compatriots.

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Zionist (Zionism)

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the international movement to re-establish a Jewish, religious community in Israel.

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Vulnerable

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susceptible to being physically or emotionally wounded.

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Crematory

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a furnace or location where a (dead) body is cremated.

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Cauldron(s)

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a large kettle fitted with a lid and handle that is used for cooking over an open flame.

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Ration(s)

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a fixed allowance of provisions or food allotted to each person during a time of shortage.

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Selection

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the process of assessing and carefully choosing someone or something as suitable or as the best.

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Kaddish

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a meaningful, Jewish prayer recited daily in a synagogue or by mourners for a peer's death.

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Birkenau

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the concentration camp that inhabited Auschwitz and contained the gas chamber as well as the women's camps.

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Third Reich

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the Nazi Empire conspired and lead by Adolf Hitler.

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Auschwitz

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the largest Nazi concentration camp, located in Southwestern Poland.