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Gestapo a secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty
Kabbalah the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible, first transmitted orally and using esoteric methods (including ciphers)
Haggard looking exhausted, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.
Phylacteries A small leather box containing Hebrew text on vellum, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer as a reminder to keep the law
Kapo a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.
Raucous making a disturbingly harsh and loud noise.
Mountebanks a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money
Privations acts taking away the necessities of life
Encumbrance a burden or impediment
Beseeching asking (someone) urgently and fervently to do something
Contagion the communication of disease from one person to another by close contact.
Riveted fascinated ; transfixed
Spasmodically subject to outbursts of emotional excitement, excitable
Deportees a person who has been or is being expelled from a country
Edict an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority
Lucidity clarity of expression; intelligibility
Wizened shriveled or wrinkled with age
Meddle interfere in or busy oneself unduly with something that is not one's concern
Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year festival
Apathy lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern
Created by: MissHart
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