Preview& Chapter1 Flashcards

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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
3rd republic of Germany which began Hitlers rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945
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SS
Hitler's black-shirted bodyguards
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Gestapo
Hitler's secret police
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The Final Solution
Terminating all Jews and "undesirables" by using gas chambers and crematories
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Selection
When SS lined up Jews and decided who should live and who shouldn't
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Elie Wiesel
Narrator and author of "Night"
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Chlomo Wiesel
Elie's father
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Idek
A crazy Kapo who beats Elie
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Rabbi Eliahous
His son deserts him in order to survive
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Heinrich Himmler
Hitler's second in command and the head of the SS
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Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany; a demagogue and tyrant who obtains power by appealing emotions and prejudices of the masses
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Dr.Mengele
"Angel of Death"; doctor that performed brutal,unnecessary experiments and operations upon prisoners
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Sighet, Hungary
Elie's home town
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Kaschau,Czechoslovakia
First concentration camp Elie and father arrive at
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Auschwitz,Poland
Home of a concentration camp opened in April, 1949
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Birkenau,Poland
The Wiessel's arrive at this concentration camp in May of 1994
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Buchenwald,Germany
Home of a concentration camp opened in July,1937. Elie and his father are taken here I'm Jan,1945