Vocab Section 1:

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Memoir: a narrative composed from a personal experience.

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Dynamic Character: a character who undergoes an important inner change such as personality or

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attitude.

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Motif: an element or idea that recurs throughout a work of literature.

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Holocaust: the state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews

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Romani people

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the intellectually disabled

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Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945.

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Section 1

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Waiflike: somebody usually a younger person

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with a thin fragile appearance who looks

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needy.

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Divinity: the quality associated with being God.

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Encumber: to burden or weigh down somebody or something; to hamper or impede.

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Insignificant: not important.

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Mysticism: the belief that personal communication or union with the divine is achieved

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through intuition

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faith

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Unsentimental: no emotional; unaffected by emotional matters.

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Indulgently: permissive

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tolerant

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Initiation: action that causes something

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especially an important process or event

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begin.

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Conviction: firmly held belief.

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10. Lorries: a large vehicle for trespassing goods by road.

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11. Deportee: somebody who has been or is waiting to be deported.

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2. Fascist: somebody who supports or advocates a system of government characterized by

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dictatorship

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centralized control of private enterprise

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extreme nationalism.

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813. Ghetto: an area of a city lived in by a minority group

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especially

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populated area of a city lived in by a group that experiences discrimination.

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14. Anecdote: a short personal account of an incident or event.

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15. Pathetic: provoking or expressing feelings of pity.

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16. Truncheon: a baton carried as a symbol of rank or authority.

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Indiscriminately: random

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haphazard

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Expulsion: the forcing out of something or somebody from something.

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19. Pillage: to steal goods using force

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especially during a war.

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20. Kabbalah: mystical and spiritual teachings in the Jewish faith.

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Talmud:

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Teaching in Jewish law and tradition

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Anti-Semitism:

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Prejudice against Jews

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Synagogue:

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Jewish place of worship

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Gestapo:

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Nazi Secret Police

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Red Army:

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Soviet military