Night Vocabulary

Question 1

genocide

Answer 1

the systematic killing of a group with the intent to wipe out a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

Question 2

ghettos

Answer 2

historically, a part of a city were a minority, often based on ethnicity or religion, was required to live.

Question 3

holocaust

Answer 3

the period of state-sponsored persecution of millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, with the goal of exterminating Europe’s Jews population.

Question 4

persecution

Answer 4

the oppression and or harassment of people based on their race, religion, color, national origin, or other distinguishing characteristics.

Question 5

melancholy

Answer 5

a deep, pensive and long lasting sadness

Question 6

liberated

Answer 6

freed from enemy occupation.

Question 7

propaganda

Answer 7

information used to promote a cause or to injure or enhance the reputation of a group, individual, or position, and which may either not be factual, may bend the facts or does not tell the entire story in order to suit the purposes of the author.

Question 8

scapegoat

Answer 8

a person or group who is given the blame for the mistakes or failures of others, promoted through the use of propaganda.

Question 9

ethnocentrism

Answer 9

the belief that one’s own ethnic, religious, or politic group is superior to all others.

Question 10

truncheons

Answer 10

a short, thick stick carried by someone of authority.

Question 11

dysentery

Answer 11

an infection of the intestines, which usually causes death.

Question 12

anti-semitism

Answer 12

hostility or prejudice against people of Jewish ethnicity or religious beliefs

Question 13

dehumanization

Answer 13

taking away the qualities of being a human being

Question 14

crematories

Answer 14

ones where bodies were incinerated.

Question 15

fascism

Answer 15

a system of government characterized by a dictatorship, belligerent nationalism, and racism.

Question 16

kaddish

Answer 16

a Jewish death prayer praising God.

Question 17

compatriot

Answer 17

a man of the same country.

Question 18

Talmud

Answer 18

the ancient collected writings of Jewish law, interpretation of scripture, and tradition, often used to help solve disputes and find wisdom.

Question 19

pipel

Answer 19

a young boy, kept in the concentration camps, used for sexual purposes by his captors.

Question 20

barrack

Answer 20

a building or group of buildings used to house people

Question 21

Hasidic

Answer 21

referring to a Jewish sect founded in the 18th century, based on mysticism and focus on becoming closer to God; also refers to a modern branch of Orthodox Jews.

Question 22

kabbalah

Answer 22

ancient Jewish mysticism based on the Zohar, a Jewish text, and studied to interpret the Old Testament and explore spiritual questions.