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Fascism

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Dictatorship government that is combined with belligerent nationalism

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Sighet

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Elie’s home town

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Genocide

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Systematic planned killing of a racial or political group

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Gestapo

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A body of German secret police that was 50,000 strong

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Judaism

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The religion of the Jewish people

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Kaddish

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A 2,000 year old Aramaic prayer recited by Jews at funeral and memorial services

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Berlin

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Capital of Germany

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Rosh Hashanah

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The Jewish year

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Yom Kippur

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The Day of Atonement, a religious holiday for the Jews where they fast

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Zionism

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Qn international movement that resulted int the establishment of a Jewish homeland

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Talmud

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Jewish bible, a 45 volume set of books on scriptural interpretation and traditions

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SS

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Hitlers secret army a special branch of the German Gestapo

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Ghetto

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A section of a city where outcasts are restricted

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Nazi

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Another name for the German national socialist party led by Hitler

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Anti-Semitism

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Hatred of Jews

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