1. Night Vocabulary

2. Diction: the author or speaker’s choice of words

3. Memoir: a biography or historical account

4. Tone: the authors attitude toward the subject, way of speaking Examples: Scared Anxious Excited Worried Foolish Smart Depressing

5. Anti-Semitism – a hatred of the Jews

6. Apathy— Lack of interest or emotion, indifference

7. beastial like a beast; cruel and savage

8. compulsory required; that which must be done

9. Concentration camp Camps that were primarily used for slave labor, holding camps or transit camps.

10. death camp Camps dedicated to the efficient murder of Jews and other victims; e.g. Auschwitz-Birkenau,Belzec, Chelmo, Madjanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. The term was also used for concentration camps where thousands died of starvation and disease

11. dehumanization to make someone less human

12. derision Scorn, ridicule

13. genocide Murder of an entire ethnic group

14. Gestapo German acronym for the German Secret State Police, part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state

15. ghetto Jewish settlements set up by Germans. The confinement of Jews in a set-apart area of a city. The first exclusively Jewish ghetto was in Venice in 1516.

16. harangued scolded, especially in a noisy and bullying way

17. holocaust Genocide of European Jews and others

18. implore To beg and plead

19. meager Of small quantity; not adequate

20. pillage To loot; to rob of property

21. SS Abbreviation of Schutzstaffel (Defense Protective Units). Notorious for implementing European Jews’ extermination

22. Talmud A Jewish religious text. The most important compilation of Jewish oral tradition.