Night Part 2 and 3 Vocab

Question 1

SS

Answer 1

Special force in the Nazi army; Schutzstaffel

Question 2

Kaddish

Answer 2

Prayer for the dead

Question 3

Sonder-kommando

Answer 3

A prisoner slave labor group assigned to work in the killing area of a concentration camp

Question 4

Rebbe

Answer 4

Teacher, master, or mentor

Question 5

Gypsy

Answer 5

A nomadic group of people

Question 6

Selection

Answer 6

During the holocaust, separating people into groups as best or most suitable according to their health, strength, physical appearance, sex, or age, etc

Question 7

Liberation

Answer 7

Freeing of the people from the concentration camps

Question 8

Blockälteste

Answer 8

Oldest member of the block

Question 9

Buna

Answer 9

A subcamp of Auschwitz

Question 10

Kapo

Answer 10

Camp prisoners given special privileges for overseeing other prisoners

Question 11

Zionist

Answer 11

Member of a Jewish movement in response to anti-semitism, seeking to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Question 12

Hebrew

Answer 12

Language of Judaism

Question 13

Haifa

Answer 13

Major seaport in NW Israel

Question 14

Aryan

Answer 14

Non-Jewish Caucasian