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23 Cards in this Set
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a minor parish official who serves a cermonial function
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beadle
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a Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi
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zohar
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motor truck used for transport of goods
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lorry
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the jewish holiday that remembers the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt that continues for eight days
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Passover
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completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air
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hermetically
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one of the major concentration camps of Hitler's Nazi Germany
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Birkenau
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a prayer recited over the dead
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Kaddish
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SS or Einsatzgruppe detachment. The term also refers to the Jewish slave labor units in extermination camps that removed the bodies of those gassed for creammtion or burial
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Sonder-kommando
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prisoner in charge of a group of inmates in Nazi concentration camps
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Kapo
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German for "overseer"
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Oberkapo
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German for "head of camp"
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Lagerkapo
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severed abdominal pain causede by spasm, obstruction, or distention of any of the hollow viscera, such as the intestines
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colic
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people that arrived in europe in migrations from northern India during the 14th century
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Gypsies
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relating to a "Jewish mystic movement founded in the 18th century in eastern Europe by Baal Shem Tov that reacted against Talmudic learning and maintained that God's presence was in all of one's surroundings and that one should serve God in one's every deed and word
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Hasidic
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"master" in german
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Meister
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the Jewish holiday celebratng the Hebrew new year
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Rosh Hashanah
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Day of Atonement, when JEws fast for God
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Yom Kippur
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a very frail, weak Jew in the concentration camps
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Musulman
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a deadly form of diarrhea that is bloody
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dysentery
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freedom
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Libration
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Initials of an elite guard, later a military force, fiercely loyal to Hitler, chanrged with the ask of carrying out the persecution and murder of the Jews in Europe
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SS
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a prison camp surrounded by barbed wire and machine gun towers where Jews and other persecuted people were burtally treated. Life expectancy at these camps was only three months.
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Concentration camp
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spcial concentration camps whose sole existence was to exterminate human beings
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death camps
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