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Night Vocabulary
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Diction: the author or speaker’s choice of words
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Memoir: a biography or historical account
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Tone: the authors attitude toward the subject, way of speaking Examples: Scared Anxious Excited Worried Foolish Smart Depressing
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Anti-Semitism – a hatred of the Jews
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Apathy— Lack of interest or emotion, indifference
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beastial like a beast; cruel and savage
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compulsory required; that which must be done
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Concentration camp Camps that were primarily used for slave labor, holding camps or transit camps.
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death camp Camps dedicated to the efficient murder of Jews and other victims; e.g. Auschwitz-Birkenau,Belzec, Chelmo, Madjanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. The term was also used for concentration camps where thousands died of starvation and disease
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dehumanization to make someone less human
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derision Scorn, ridicule
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genocide Murder of an entire ethnic group
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Gestapo German acronym for the German Secret State Police, part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state
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ghetto Jewish settlements set up by Germans. The confinement of Jews in a set-apart area of a city. The first exclusively Jewish ghetto was in Venice in 1516.
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harangued scolded, especially in a noisy and bullying way
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holocaust Genocide of European Jews and others
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implore To beg and plead
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meager Of small quantity; not adequate
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pillage To loot; to rob of property
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SS Abbreviation of Schutzstaffel (Defense Protective Units). Notorious for implementing European Jews’ extermination
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Talmud A Jewish religious text. The most important compilation of Jewish oral tradition.
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