Night

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Billeted

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to be quartered or lodges, esp. in reference to troops.

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Boche

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a derogatory term for German troops.

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Firmament

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the expanse of the heavens; the sky

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Ghetto

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An area of a city which contains and restricts a certain portion of the population. The Jews of various Eastern European cities were forcibly relocated into cordoned- off areas of the city where overcrowding, starvation, and forced labor wer the norm.

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Hasidism

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the ultra-orthodox branch of Judaism that teaches the individuals to raise every action in life to the level of a prayer.

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Kabbalah

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the body of mystical teachings based on esoteric interpretations of ancient Hebrew scriptures.

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Lorry

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a truck

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Passover

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a holiday celebrating the Jews' freedom from slavery in Egypt.

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Talmud

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the codified body of Jewish civil and religious law including rabbinical commentaries on the Torah

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Torah

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the first five books of the Old Testament

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Truncheon

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a club

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Waif

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a forsaken or homeless child

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Zionism

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political movement concerned with founding a Jewish state in Palestine

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Auschwitz- Birkenau

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concentration camp located in Poland, near Krakow. It was first established by the Nazis in 1941 under the direction of Himmler, chief of the Gestapo. Atleast 1/3 of the 5-6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust died at Auschwitz.

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Antechamber

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a smaller room serving as an entrance into a larger room

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Devoid

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completely lacking; empty

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Job

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from the Old Testament, Job was a deeply religious man who retained his faith even though he suffered great illness and loss.

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Leprous

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resembling leprosy

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Lucidity

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clarity

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Kapo

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a concentration camp inmate (Jew) appointed by the S.S. to be in charge of a work group.

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Jesef Mengele

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a German S.S. physician notorious for pseudo- scientific experiments particularly on Gypsies and twins

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Sonder Kommando

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S.S. or Einsatzgruppe, also refers to the Jewish slave labor units that removed bodies of those who were gassed in extermination camps.

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S.S. (Schutzstaffel)

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an elite unit of the Nazi party that acted as political police and oversaw the operation of the concentration camps

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Wizened

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dried up, withered

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Aryan Race

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a term that referred to the people of Northern European racial background. The Nazi aim was to preserve the purity of German blood. Jews and Gypsies were excluded.

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Buna

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One of the forced labor camps that were part of Auschwitz III. It was found that most prisoners on the so called I.G. Farben Diet lost an average of 7-9 pounds per week.

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Gallows

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structure used for hangings

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Himmler, Heinrich

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Nazi leader, second in command to Hitler

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Crucible

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a severe test, a trial

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fortnight

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14 days

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musulmann

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prison camp slang for a prisoner who was so weakened he wasn't expected to live much longer

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Red Army

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Soviet Russian army. Russia was on of the Allied powers during WW II.

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Rosh Hashanah

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the Jewish New Year

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Yom Kippur

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Day of Atonement

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Automatons

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people who act in a mechanical fashion

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petrified

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dried up

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stupefied

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dazed

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Death march

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when nazis realized that defeat was imminent, they moved tens of thousands of prisoners from the concentration camps in an attempt to cover up the atrocities Germany committed. Thousands of prisoners perished.