Vocabulary List For The Book Night

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opposition to and discrimination against Jews

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Anti - Semitism

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Nazi death camp in Poland; largest of all camps

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Auschwitz

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reception center for Auschwitz

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Birkenau

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Nazi death camp in Germany

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Buchenwald

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collection of traditional stories that probes the mysteries of the universe

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Cabbala (Zohar)

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first Nazi death camp near Munich, Germany, opened in March 1933

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Dachau

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Nazi policy of denying Jews basic vicil rights such as practicing religion, education, and adequate food and housing

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dehumanization

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process of pepole being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war, governmental policies, etc.

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displacement

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intestinal inflammation characterized by abdominal pain, diarrhea, and dehydration

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dysentery

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act of caring out death painlessly, "mercy killing"

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euthanasia

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dictatorship government characterized by suppression of individual freedoms

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fascism

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Nazi term for the plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe

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final solution

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Secret State Police, used brutal methods to investigate and suppress resistance to Nazi rule w/in Germany & throughout Nazi-occupied Europe

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Gestapo

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the total annihilation of a race or ethnic group

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genocide

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established in poor sections of a city where most of the Jews from the city were forced to reside

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ghetto

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head of the SS and the Gestapo

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Heinrich Himmler

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Nazi dicator of Germany from 1933-1945

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Adolf Hitler

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monotheistic religion of the Jews, based on the teachings of the Old Testament and the Talmud

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Judaism

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Jewish hymn recited at a daily service or as a mourner's prayer (funeral hymn)

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Kaddish

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"The Night of the Broken Glass" on Nov. 9, 1938, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8000 Jewish shops were looted & destroyed, & tens of thousands of Jews were moved into concentration camps

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Kristallnacht

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"The Angel of Death" doctor who performed brutal, unnecessary experiments and operations on prisoners, took interest in children, expecially twins

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Dr. Joseph Mengele

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German fascist party which ruled under Hitler

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Nazi

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prisoner placed as head of a work camp unit, was usually brutal

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Oberkapo

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Jewish holiday which celebrates the liberation of Hebrew slaves in Egypt

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Passover

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attitude of closed-mindedness, to judge someone without any knowledge of the person, usually based on stereotypes

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prejudice

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any widespread promotion of a particular idea

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propaganda

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German term for the deportation of prisoners to killing centers in Poland

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resettlement

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one who bears the blame for others

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scapegoat

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term used by SS officers who determined which prisoners lived and which would die

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selection

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Schutzstaffel, originally formed in 1925 as Hitler's personal guard; in 1934 established control of the police forming a Nazi police state

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SS

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six-pointed star which is a symbol of Judaism, Jews in Europe were forced to wear these on their sleeves as a form of identification

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Star of David

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body of early Jewish civil and religious laws

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Talmud

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the Third Republic of Germany, ruled from 1933-1945

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Third Reich

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used to describe any non-Aryan group; Aryan people were pure, non-Jewish Caucasians (blonde hair, blue eyes)

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undesirable

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established in Nov. 1940, contained nearly 500,000 Jews; many died in 1941 due to overcrowding, hard labor, malnutrition. Jews revolted & fighting lasted 28 days, ending in destruction of ghetto

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Warsaw ghetto