Night terms Flashcards
Anti-Semitism
hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.
Aryan
the Aryan religion was a polytheistic religion. It has common origins with the Greek, Roman, and Egyptian polytheistic religions. The Aryan religion, as well as the Aryan rituals and culture are shaped by the Vedas, which are a collection of hyms.
Nuremberg Race Laws
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor banned future intermarriages and sexual relations between Jews and people “of German or related blood.
Reich Citizenship Law: Jews, defined as a separate race, could not be full citizens of Germany. They had no political rights.
The Reich Citizenship Law:
defined a citizen as a person who is “of German or related blood.” This meant that Jews, defined as a separate race, could not be full citizens of Germany. They had no political rights.
Gestapo
Secret State Police), abbreviated Gestapo (German: [ɡəˈʃtaːpo]; /ɡəˈstɑːpoʊ/), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
Displaced persons
Liberated holocaust survivors trying to find their family
Nazism
a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed.
Tzipora and Madame Schächter
Elie’s younger sister. She dies, along with Elie’s mother at Birkenau. Madame Schachter: A woman of about fifty with a ten year old child. On the train ride to Auschwitz, she starts to lose her mind.
Stein of Antwerp
Eliezer’s relative from Antwerp, Belgium, whom he and his father encounter in Auschwitz. Trying to bolster his spirit, Eliezer lies to Stein and tells him that his family is still alive and healthy.
Juliek
The violinist who dies playing his violin
The pipel
A young assistant under the Dutch Oberkapo (head overseer) at Buna, he is sentenced to death for being involved in sabotage.