Night vocab list #1

Synagogue

house of worship for those of the Jewish religion

Encumbered

burdened, weighed down

Timid

shy

Waif

a homeless or abandoned child

Divine

excellent, delightful; from God

Betrothal

formal engagement to be married

Billet

to place soldiers - usually a civilian’s house or other nonmilitary facility; to lodge temporarily

Liquidate

get rid of; sell completely

Emigration

the act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad

anti - semitic

hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people

holocaust

total destruction or sacrifice - especially by fire

Holocaust

the attempted destruction of the Jewish people by Hitler

Genocide

extermination of a race

Pogrom

a mass killing; an organized massacre

Queue

a line of people

Aryan

Hitler’s ideal race

Oppress

to crush and destroy

Emaciate

to starve or make very thin

Auschwitz

the largest death camp in poland

Ghetto

a restricted or isolated area for a group