important holocaust terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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