Vocabulary
As you read the story “Night” and explore what the Holocaust was keep a log of important terminology as it is used in the core novel. In addition to keeping a growing dictionary of terminology related to the Holocaust be sure to define the terms in relation to history and their use in the text.
Vocabulary in Context definitions are due Thursday, April 17th - NO LATE WORK FOR "NIGHT" WILL BE ACCEPTED OVER OR AFTER SPRING BREAK!
EXAMPLE:
Term (p.#): Holocaust
Definition:
· Greek meaning “sacrifice by fire”
· Systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
World War II
-a war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939 and ending on August 12, 1945, with surrender of Japan.
Genocide
-the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national or cultural group.
Concentration Camp
-a guarded compound for the detention of aliens, minorities, or political opponents.
Adolf Hitler
-Nazi dictator of Germany
-born in Austria in 1889
Ally
-a person, group, or nation that is associated with another for a common purpose
Persecute
-to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment especially because of religion, race, or beliefs
Ethnicity
-belonging to a group with common nationality or tradition
Displaced Persons Camp
- facilities who administered support or help for those who are threatened to move by the Holocaust and lost the homes due to the Holocaust
Culture
-the quality in a person or society that is unique and is a tradition such as manners, letters, language
Nazi
-a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which under Adolf Hitler, in 1933, gained political control of the country
Einsatzgruppen
-semi-military groups formed in Nazi Germany before and during World War ll.
Ghetto
-a section of a city inhabited by members of an ethnic or other minority group
Final Solution
-the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich
Ideology
-the body of doctrine, myth, belief that guides an individual, social movement, or large group.
Race
-a group of person related by common descent or heredity
Death March
-forced marches of prisoners in Nazi Germany to hide the prisoners from war
Places, religious customs, and other important words from “Night” to know:
1. Auschwitz
2. Expulsion
3. Pentecost
4. Warsaw
5. Birkenau
6. Ghettos
7. Rosh Hashanah
8. Yom Kippur
9. Buchenwald
10. Sighet
11. Buna
12. Hasid (Hasidism)
13. Synagogue
14. Cabbala
15. Daschau
16. Talmud
17. Deportation
18. Passover
19. Torah
Vocabulary in Context definitions are due Thursday, April 17th - NO LATE WORK FOR "NIGHT" WILL BE ACCEPTED OVER OR AFTER SPRING BREAK!
EXAMPLE:
Term (p.#): Holocaust
Definition:
· Greek meaning “sacrifice by fire”
· Systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
World War II
-a war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939 and ending on August 12, 1945, with surrender of Japan.
Genocide
-the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national or cultural group.
Concentration Camp
-a guarded compound for the detention of aliens, minorities, or political opponents.
Adolf Hitler
-Nazi dictator of Germany
-born in Austria in 1889
Ally
-a person, group, or nation that is associated with another for a common purpose
Persecute
-to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment especially because of religion, race, or beliefs
Ethnicity
-belonging to a group with common nationality or tradition
Displaced Persons Camp
- facilities who administered support or help for those who are threatened to move by the Holocaust and lost the homes due to the Holocaust
Culture
-the quality in a person or society that is unique and is a tradition such as manners, letters, language
Nazi
-a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which under Adolf Hitler, in 1933, gained political control of the country
Einsatzgruppen
-semi-military groups formed in Nazi Germany before and during World War ll.
Ghetto
-a section of a city inhabited by members of an ethnic or other minority group
Final Solution
-the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich
Ideology
-the body of doctrine, myth, belief that guides an individual, social movement, or large group.
Race
-a group of person related by common descent or heredity
Death March
-forced marches of prisoners in Nazi Germany to hide the prisoners from war
Places, religious customs, and other important words from “Night” to know:
1. Auschwitz
2. Expulsion
3. Pentecost
4. Warsaw
5. Birkenau
6. Ghettos
7. Rosh Hashanah
8. Yom Kippur
9. Buchenwald
10. Sighet
11. Buna
12. Hasid (Hasidism)
13. Synagogue
14. Cabbala
15. Daschau
16. Talmud
17. Deportation
18. Passover
19. Torah