"Night"
By: Elie Wiesel
Vocabulary
World War II
Definition:
- the war between the Axis (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (the countries that fought with the United States) that started in 1939 and ended in 1945
Genocide
Definition:
- the killing or murder of a large group of people who are of a particular ethnic group or nation
Concentration Camp
Definition:
- a small area with inadequate facilities where a large group of people, political prisoners and members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned, sometimes to await for execution or to provide forced labor
Adolf Hitler
Definition:
- a German leader and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945
- he cofounded the Nazi Party and caused the Holocaust, the mass execution of Jewish people in Europe
Ally
Definition:
- a person or organization that helps another
- a country or state formally cooperating with another
Persecute
Definition:
- to cause harm or discriminate to a particular group, which can be based on race, gender, religion, etc.
Ethnicity
- the fact of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition
- cultural
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 customs, arts, tradition, and religion of a particular group, nation, or person
Nazi
- a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party
- developed a racist ideology
- contributor to the Holocaust
- the Nazi Party was outlawed in Germany after World War II
Einsatzgruppen
- composed of the German assets and police personnel whose task was to cause mass killings or shootings and exterminations
Ghetto
- an isolated or segregated group or area
Final Solution
- the Nazi policy or rule of killing or exterminating European Jews
Ideology
- a systems of ideas and ideals
Race
- a group of people sharing the culture, history, language, etc.
Death March
- the forced marches of inmates in Nazi Germany to avoid prisoners from the front lines of the war
Definition:
- the war between the Axis (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (the countries that fought with the United States) that started in 1939 and ended in 1945
Genocide
Definition:
- the killing or murder of a large group of people who are of a particular ethnic group or nation
Concentration Camp
Definition:
- a small area with inadequate facilities where a large group of people, political prisoners and members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned, sometimes to await for execution or to provide forced labor
Adolf Hitler
Definition:
- a German leader and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945
- he cofounded the Nazi Party and caused the Holocaust, the mass execution of Jewish people in Europe
Ally
Definition:
- a person or organization that helps another
- a country or state formally cooperating with another
Persecute
Definition:
- to cause harm or discriminate to a particular group, which can be based on race, gender, religion, etc.
Ethnicity
- the fact of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition
- cultural
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 customs, arts, tradition, and religion of a particular group, nation, or person
Nazi
- a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party
- developed a racist ideology
- contributor to the Holocaust
- the Nazi Party was outlawed in Germany after World War II
Einsatzgruppen
- composed of the German assets and police personnel whose task was to cause mass killings or shootings and exterminations
Ghetto
- an isolated or segregated group or area
Final Solution
- the Nazi policy or rule of killing or exterminating European Jews
Ideology
- a systems of ideas and ideals
Race
- a group of people sharing the culture, history, language, etc.
Death March
- the forced marches of inmates in Nazi Germany to avoid prisoners from the front lines of the war