comp 2 vocab 1

Indifference

Lack of care or concern; Wiesel argues it is more dangerous than hatred

Infamy

Being famous for something evil or disgraceful

Abiding

Lasting a long time; enduring.

State

A condition or situation at a particular time.

Harrowing

Extremely distressing or frightening.

Anguish

Severe mental or emotional pain and suffering.

Abstraction

Something theoretical or distant, not concrete or personal.

Muselmänner

Concentration camp prisoners who were physically and mentally broken, near death.

Auschwitz

Largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp where over a million people were knocked

Vacantly

With a blank or empty expression; without awareness or emotion.

Ultimate

Final, greatest, or most extreme.

To denounce

To publicly condemn or criticize.

To commemorate

To honor or remember a person or event.

Consolation

Comfort given during sadness or loss.

Kristallnacht

“Night of Broken Glass” (1938); Nazi attack on Jews, synagogues, and businesses.

Righteous Gentiles

Non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

Rabin and Arafat

Israeli and Palestinian leaders who worked toward peace.

Accord

A formal agreement or treaty.

To convene

To bring people together for a meeting.

Cleansing

Ethnic cleansing; forced removal or killing of a group.