Night Chapters 1-3

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Kapos

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Jewish prisoners put in charge of other prisoners in concentration camps.

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Sonder-Kommando

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Special units of Jewish prisoners forced to work in the crematoria.

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SS

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The paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

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Kommando

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A term used for a group of prisoners assigned to a specific task.

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Gold, jewels, or any object of value

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Items that Jews were forced to turn over to the Hungarian Police under German orders.

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First person point of view

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The narrative perspective used in 'Night', where the author tells his own story.

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Ages

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The lie that Elie and his father tell the SS officers upon arrival.

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Madame Schachter's vision

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A horrifying vision of burning pits of fire on the train to Auschwitz.

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Auschwitz

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A notorious concentration and extermination camp during the Holocaust.

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Holocaust

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The genocide of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime.