Preview& Chapter1

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Premonition

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Anticipation of an event usually bad, even without any warning

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Bestial

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Like a beast or animal

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Blandishments

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Something used to coax or lure

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Crucible

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Container for cooking at high heat

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Phylacteries

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Small boxes containing scripture; worn by Jewish men for daily prayer

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Pillage

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To rob with open violence

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Compatriots

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Fellow countrymen

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Edict

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Official statement; law

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Expound

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To set forth in detail

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Firmament

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The sky, or heavens

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Heretically

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Completely sealed; air tight

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Pestilential

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Filled with disease; contagious

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Torah

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Hebrew Bible

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Talmud

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A collection of teachings of early rabbis from the 5th and 6th centuries

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Cabbala

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Collection of traditions lore that probes the mysteries of the universe

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Ross Hashanah

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Marks the New Year on the Jewish calendar

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Yom Kippur

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The holiest day of the Jewish calendar

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Passover

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8-day festival commemorating the freezing of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage

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Diaspora

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Countries outside of Israel inhabited Jews

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Assimilation

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To accept the culture of another group while giving up one’s own

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Ghetto

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A section of a city in which Jews were required to live surrounded by walls

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Genocide

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Intention is the total annihilation of a race or ethnic group

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Holocaust

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The destruction of 6 million Jews

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Aryan Race

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“Perfect race”

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Third Reich

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3rd republic of Germany which began Hitlers rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945

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SS

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Hitler’s black-shirted bodyguards

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Gestapo

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Hitler’s secret police

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The Final Solution

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Terminating all Jews and “undesirables” by using gas chambers and crematories

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Selection

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When SS lined up Jews and decided who should live and who shouldn’t

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Elie Wiesel

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Narrator and author of “Night”

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Chlomo Wiesel

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Elie’s father

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Idek

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A crazy Kapo who beats Elie

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Rabbi Eliahous

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His son deserts him in order to survive

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Heinrich Himmler

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Hitler’s second in command and the head of the SS

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Adolf Hitler

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Dictator of Germany; a demagogue and tyrant who obtains power by appealing emotions and prejudices of the masses

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Dr.Mengele

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“Angel of Death”; doctor that performed brutal,unnecessary experiments and operations upon prisoners

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Sighet, Hungary

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Elie’s home town

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Kaschau,Czechoslovakia

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First concentration camp Elie and father arrive at

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Auschwitz,Poland

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Home of a concentration camp opened in April, 1949

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Birkenau,Poland

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The Wiessel’s arrive at this concentration camp in May of 1994

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Buchenwald,Germany

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Home of a concentration camp opened in July,1937. Elie and his father are taken here I’m Jan,1945