Night Essential Vocabulary

German political party joined by Adolf Hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war

• Hasidic

• Nazi Party

• regime

• Holocaust

a government, especially an authoritarian one

• regime

• ghetto

• SS

• Hebrew

hostility and mistreatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs

• Holocaust

• fascism

• persecution

• Aryan

the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler; of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire"

• fascism

• Holocaust

• persecution

• ghetto

a political system led by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition

• Hebrew

• SS

• regime

• fascism

a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

• ghetto

• Auschwitz-Birkenau

• genocide

• anti-Semitism

The largest and most notorious concentration, labor and death camp where 1.6 million died; located in Poland.

• genocide

• Auschwitz-Birkenau

• Kapo

• Aryan

a Jewish sect founded upon mysticism, prayer, ritual strictness, religious zeal, and joy

• Hebrew

• SS

• Auschwitz-Birkenau

• Hasidic

deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

• ghetto

• Kapo

• genocide

• regime

camp prisoner forced to oversee other prisoners

• SS

• Kapo

• Aryan

• Hebrew