Night Flashcards
Fascism
Dictatorship government that is combined with belligerent nationalism
Sighet
Elie’s home town
Genocide
Systematic planned killing of a racial or political group
Gestapo
A body of German secret police that was 50,000 strong
Judaism
The religion of the Jewish people
Kaddish
A 2,000 year old Aramaic prayer recited by Jews at funeral and memorial services
Berlin
Capital of Germany
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish year
Yom Kippur
The Day of Atonement, a religious holiday for the Jews where they fast
Zionism
Qn international movement that resulted int the establishment of a Jewish homeland
Talmud
Jewish bible, a 45 volume set of books on scriptural interpretation and traditions
SS
Hitlers secret army a special branch of the German Gestapo
Ghetto
A section of a city where outcasts are restricted
Nazi
Another name for the German national socialist party led by Hitler
Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews