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

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

• Zohar

• Shekinah

• Gestapo

• Ghetto

• Anti-Semitism

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

• Kapo

• Kommando

• Passover

• Rosh Hashanah

• Kaddish

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

• Kapo

• Kommando

• Passover

• Rosh Hashanah

• Kaddish

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