allies - the 4 major opponents of Germany in WWII, Anti-semitism - prejudice against Jews; discrimination or persecution of Jews, aryan - nazi term for superior, white, heroic, Concentration camps - prison camps established by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party for Jews and other political prisoners during the war., crematorium - oven or furnace where the bodies of concentration and death camp prisoners were burned, death camps - Nazis centers of murder or extermination, death marches - Forced marches under brutal conditions to avoid liberation by advancing Allied forces., deportation - the forced removal of jews in Nazi-occupied lands to concentration camps, euthanasia - the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing, final solution - the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler, gas chamber - also called "the showers"; place where victims of the Holocaust were killed with poisonous gas, genocide - systematic killing of a racial or cultural group, gestapo - the secret state police in Nazi Germany, ghetto - formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live, Holocaust - the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII, liberation - opening of camps by the allies and freeing of prisoners, nazi - National Socialist German Workers Party, prejudice - a negative attitude formed toward an individual or group without sufficient experience with the person or group, propoganda - systematic, widespread and deliberate indoctrination of large groups of people. ideas are spread this way, racism - the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races, scapegoat - group of persons unfairly blamed for wrongs done by others, Star of David - a Jewish symbol that the Nazis forced Jews to wear to make them visible; a mark of shame, selection - procedure used to determine who would live and who die in the death and labor camps. usually carried out by doctors, stereotype - generalizations made about groups of people based on fixed mental image, swastika - the official emblem of the Nazi Party, Kabbalah - the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible, Moishe the Beadle - homeless; taken away for being a Foreign Jew; survives almost being killed; tries to warn the people of Sighet, but they ignore him, Elie Wiesel - Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is the author of Night, about his experience at Auschwitz., Sighet - the town in Transylvania where Elie Wiesel is from,

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