Accordion
A portable musical instrument played by using a series of keys and buttons
Anorak
A waterproof jacket with a hood
Cheder
Torah school
Denounce
Publicly accuse; condemn and issue information against
Dismembered
Having the limbs cut or torn off
Evangelical
According to the teachings of the Gospel of the Christian religion; passionate in trying to convert someone to a point of view
Extermination Camp
A place where the mass killings of people took place according to a sytematic plan
Gendarmes
Soldiers employed to carry out the job of the police force
Genocide
The deliberate extermination of a nation or race of people
Ghetto
A segregated area of a city that is occupied by a minority group, for example, the Jewish quarter
Holocaust
The mas murder of Jews by the Nazis carried out during World War Two, during the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler from 1938-1945
Immense
Immeasurably large
Immurment
Enclosure between walls
Irrigation
To supply with a constant flow of liquid using tunnels or channels
Kolkhoze
A collective farm in Russia
Partisans
A force in support of a particular party over another
Pessah
A Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt
Pivotal
Of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something
Pogrom
An organized massacre (originally of Jews within Russia)
