atrocity

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atrocity

• An act of unspeakable horror and brutality

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coercion

• Government by force

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fanatic

• A person whose extreme zeal goes beyond reason

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fascism

• A government whose characteristics are a one
  party dictatorship, forcible suppression of the
  opposition, racism, and militarism

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genocide

• The systematic killing of, or a program intended
  to destroy a whole national or ethnic group

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ghetto

• A section in European cities restricted to Jews

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gestapo

• Secret state police of the German Nazis, known
  for its terrorism and atrocities

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orthodox

• Pertaining to a characteristic of Judaism
  focusing on the traditional ceremonies and rites

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Hasidic

• A Jewish group founded in the 18th century in
  Eastern Europe by Baal Shem Tov that reacted
  against Talmudic learning and maintained that
  Gods presence was in all of ones surrounding
  and that one should serve God in ones every deed
  and word

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rabbi

• A term used by Jewish culture as a form of
  address for a teacher A Jewish man trained and
  ordained for professional religious leadership

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compatriots

• Fellow countrymen

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concentration camps

• A camp where persons (as prisoners of war or
  political prisoners) are confined

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Aryan

• Of European descent Nordic (blonde hair, blue
  eyes)

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truncheons

• A police officers night stick

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Anti-Semitism

• Hostility toward the Jewish culture as a
  religious or social minority

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pestilential

• Filled with disease contagious

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extermination

• Annihilation of some group or some thing by
  killing

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premonition

• Anticipation of an event, usually negative, even
  without actual warning

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Judaism

• The monotheistic religion of the Jews, tracing
  its origins to Abraham and having its spiritual
  and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the
  Hebrew Scriptures (Torah) and the Talmud
  Conformity to the traditional ceremonies and
  rites of the Jewish religion

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Talmud

• It is a collection of teaching of early rabbis
  from the 5th and 6th centuries

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cabbala

• Mystical commentary on the Torah

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Torah

• The first five books of the Hebrew Bible

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Rosh Hashanah

• Marks the New Year of the Jewish calendar

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Passover

• An eight day festival commemorating the freeing
  of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery

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synagogue

• A Jewish congregation the house of worship for a
  Jewish congregation

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kapo

• In charge of the blocks

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holocaust

• Great or complete destruction, especially due to
  fire