Night Vocabulary

A concentration camp prisoner who was selected to oversee other prisoners on labor details.

• Kapo

• Kommando

• Passover

• Rosh Hashanah

• Kaddish

Hebrew meaning: "splendor" or "radiance"

• Zohar

• Shekinah

• Gestapo

• Ghetto

• Anti-Semitism

Festival of the New Year in Judaism. This and Yom Kippur and the eight days in between are special days of penitence.

• Kapo

• Kommando

• Passover

• Rosh Hashanah

• Kaddish

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or ethnic minority group.

• Zohar

• Shekinah

• Gestapo

• Ghetto

• Anti-Semitism

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A Jewish prayer recited in the daily synagogue and by mourners after the death of a close relative.

• Kapo

• Kommando

• Passover

• Rosh Hashanah

• Kaddish

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

A Jewish holday celebrationg the Hebrew's liberation from slavery in Egypt.

• Kapo

• Kommando

• Passover

• Rosh Hashanah

• Kaddish

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A confined area of a city where members of a minority group are completed to live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.

• Zohar

• Shekinah

• Gestapo

• Ghetto

• Anti-Semitism

The German Secret State police, under SS control and command.

• Zohar

• Shekinah

• Gestapo

• Ghetto

• Anti-Semitism

A visible manifestation of the divine presence as described in Jewish theology.

• Zohar

• Shekinah

• Gestapo

• Ghetto

• Anti-Semitism

German word for detachment, a detachment of concentration camp prisoners as forced labor.

• Kapo

• Kommando

• Passover

• Rosh Hashanah

• Kaddish