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sighet Elie's hometown ghetto areas in cities where Jew were forced to live separated by a stone wall from the city cattle cars Frieght cars that were used to transport Jews birkenau A segment of Auschwitz where prisoners were housed and the camp was located auschwitz death camp in southern Poland, Heinrich Himmler ordered its operation on April 27, 1940, 4 larger camps, housed 5 crematoria and 45 sub camps buna The second concentration camp where Elie and his father are taken to, it is at Buna where they face the hardest labor and abuse. death run when the jews had to run from auschwitz to concentration camps in germany because the soviet union was after the germans gleiwitz The camp the prisoners reach during the winter march. The prisoners move from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald. buchenwald another death camp located in southern germany star of david had the word "jude" on them and every jew had to where one; became the symbol of Nazi persecution http://farm1.staticflickr.com/148/388165208_f27afca191.jpg nazi national socialists german workers party, founded in 1919, hitler became the leader in 1921, practiced hatred of certain religions, swastika old religious ornament adopted by the nazis http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/214772380_fca5284b08.jpg gestapo "secret police"; mainly in ghettos kapos prisoners who cooperate with the SS in the disciplining of their fellow prisoners schutzstaffell (SS) a special force notorious for its brutal concentration camp grounds concentration camps reservation where Jews and minorities were forced to work and where many were executed as part of Hitlers "final solution" the gate says "arbeit macht frei" (work makes one free) hasidism a jewish religious movement started in eastern europe in the eighteenth century talmud spoken, passe down laws, dictates the lfestyle and behavior of the Jews cabala esoteric system of interpretation of the script based upon a tradition claimed to have been handed down oraly by abraham rosh hashana new years yom kippor day of atonement