antechamber - a smaller room that is an entrance to a larger one, billeted - to be lodged in a house, especially in references to troops, ghetto - an area of a city which contains and restricts a portion of the population, Hasidism - the ultra-orthodox branch of Judaism that teaches the individual to raise every action in life t the level of prayer, Kabbalah - sometimes Cabbala; the body of mystical teachings based on interpretations of ancient Hebrew scripture, Horthy - the ruler of Hungary from 1920-1944; he was exiled after Germany conquered Hungary, Passover - a holiday celebrating the Jews' freedom from slavery in Egypt, Phylacteries - small leather boxes containing strips of parchment inscribed with quotations from Hebrew Scriptures, Talmud - the body of Jewish civil and religious law, Torah - the first five books of the Old Testament of the Bible, waiflike - like a homeless child, Job - the deeply religious figure from the Old Testament of the Bible (Torah) who retained his faith even though he suffered greatly , lucidity - clarity, Kapo - a concentration camp inmate who was appointed by the SS to be in charge of a work group, Mengele - a German SS physician who was notorious for his pseudo-scientific experiments on concentration camp victims, especially children and twins, SonderKommando - SS or Einsatzgruppe; the Jewish slave labor units that removed the bodies of those who were gassed in extermination camps, Schutzstaffel - the SS; an elite unit of the Nazi party that acted as political police and oversaw the operation of the concentration camps, wizened - dried up; withered, Fascism - far-right, authoritarian, nationalist political ideology, testimony - a statement made by a witness; first-hand evidence, abyss - great depths that cannot be measured, crematorium - a place where bodies of the dead are burned and reduced to ash, camaraderie - a spirit of good fellowship, void - vacant; empty, oblivion - state of being forgotten or unknown, petrify - to confound with fear, amazement, or awe, cynical - distrustful of human nature and motives, sanctity - state of being holy or sacred, emaciated - thin and feeble from lack of nutrition, Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year,

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