vocab

Question 0

what is atonement?

Answer 0

reparation for a wrong or injury/ the reconciliation of God and humankind through Jesus Christ

Question 1

what is anti-semitic?

Answer 1

hosility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

Question 2

what is beadle?

Answer 2

a ceremonial officer of a church, college, or similar institution

Question 3

what is cabbala?

Answer 3

the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible, first transmitted orally and using esoteric methods. it reached the height of its influence in the later Middle Ages and remains significant in Hasidism

Question 4

who is Dr. Josef Mengele?

Answer 4

he carried out human experiments on camp inmates, especially twins. Josef Mengele was an SS physician, infamous for his inhumane medical experimentation upon concentration camp prisoners at Auschwitz

Question 5

what is a fascist?

Answer 5

an advocate or follower of extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices

Question 6

what is genocide?

Answer 6

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation

Question 7

what is gestapo?

Answer 7

was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe

Question 8

what is the ghetto?

Answer 8

were a preliminary step in the annihilation of the Jews, became transition areas, used as collection points for deportation to death camps and concentration camps

Question 9

what are guerillas?

Answer 9

a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces

Question 10

what is kaddish?

Answer 10

an ancient Jewish prayer sequence regularly recited in the synagogue service, including thanksgiving and praise and concluding with a prayer for universal peace

Question 11

what are lorries?

Answer 11

a large, heavy motor vehicle for transporting goods or troops, a truck

Question 12

what is a nazi?

Answer 12

a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party , a member of an organization with ideology similar to Nazism

Question 13

who is Nietzsche?

Answer 13

a German philosopher. in the nineteenth century he predicted that over the next two centuries, the philosophy of nihilism- purposelessness and despair- would take over the Western world leading to an unprecendent of world wide war

Question 14

what are nyilas?

Answer 14

the archer party, also called the arrow cross party, ruled Hungary from oct. 1944-1945

Question 15

what is passover?

Answer 15

The major Jewish Spring Festival that commemorates the liberation of the Isrealites from slavery lasting seven or eight days from 15th day of Nisan

Question 16

what is pentecost?

Answer 16

the thanksgiving feast for the first fruit of the wheat hafvest and was associated with rememberance of God’s gift of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Question 17

what is a Rabbi?

Answer 17

a jewish scholar or teacher eapecially one who studies or teaches Jewish law

Question 18

what is Rosh Hashanah?

Answer 18

the Jewish New Year festival, held on the first day of Tishri(in September) marked by the blowing of the shofar, and begins the ten days of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur

Question 19

what is a synagogue?

Answer 19

the building where a jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction

Question 20

what are truncheons?

Answer 20

a short, thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer

Question 21

what is talmud?

Answer 21

the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend comprising the Mishnah and the Gemara, two versions

Question 22

what is the Torah?

Answer 22

the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures( jewish bible)

Question 23

what is Yom Kippur?

Answer 23

the most solemn religious fast of the Jewish year, the last of the ten days of penitence that begin with Rosh Hashanah

Question 24

what is zionism?

Answer 24

a movement for the re-establishment and the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Isreal?

Question 25

who is Shlomo?

Answer 25

eliezer’s father, well respected man

Question 26

who is moeshe the beadle?

Answer 26

eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism, poor Jew lives in sighet, deported in first batch came back to warn the rest of Jews and they didnt believe him

Question 27

who is madame schachter?

Answer 27

jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as a Eliezer, was for a mad woman when every night she screams that she sees the furnace in the distance she proves to be a prophetess but was beaten to shut up

Question 28

who is juliek?

Answer 28

A young music musician who Eliezer meets in Auschwitz as he was trampled to death played his violin after the death march to Gleiwitz

Question 29

who are Tibi and Yosi?

Answer 29

two brothers with whom eliezer becomes friends with in Buna plan to move to Palenstine after the war

Question 30

who is idek?

Answer 30

the kapo who beats eliezer extremely cruel

Question 31

who is Franek ?

Answer 31

a nice man till he wants Eliezer’s gold tooth prys it out with a spoon torments elie’s father

Question 32

what is a pipel?

Answer 32

the kapo’s apperentince

Question 33

why did elie lie about his age?

Answer 33

to avoid selection

Question 34

who was rabbi eliahou

Answer 34

devout jewish prisoner who is abandon by his son comforter

Question 35

who are elie’s three sisters?

Answer 35

hilda, bea, tziporA

Question 36

how are elie’s family warned?

Answer 36

by a hungarian police inspector tapping on their window

Question 37

who is akiba what does he ask for before death?

Answer 37

a singer who lost faith, asked for therest of the prisoner to say kaddish for him

Question 38

who is dutch oberkapo?

Answer 38

friendly mad who is deported for not naming coconspirators

Question 39

who kills his father for bread?

Answer 39

meir