Lublin (proper noun)
A large city in Poland.
Zloty (noun)
The currency used in Poland during the time of the Holocaust.
Gestapo (proper noun)
The official secret police force in Nazi Germany.
ghetto (noun)
A sanctioned-off part of a city where minorities, in particular Jews, are exiled to live.
identity card (noun)
Cards which were given to inhabitants of the Nazi-controlled territory. They noted your name, date of birth, your race and other personal information. They were often used as proof of one's race.
Nazi (proper noun)
a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Chopin (proper noun)
A French composer, born in Poland, and a pianist of the romantic era.
conservatory (noun)
a college for the study of classical music or other arts.
Star of David (proper noun)
a six-pointed figure consisting of two interlaced equilateral triangles, used as a Jewish and Israeli symbol.
Bechstein (proper noun)
a piano made by the German piano-builder Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Bechstein (1826–1900) or by the firm which he founded in 1856.
klezmer (noun)
conspirator (noun)
a person who takes part in a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
anesthesia (noun)
insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations.
the historical imperative (noun)
In a context of international relations, the action or stance a nation has the obligation to take or is expected to take given the previous relations with another state.
Treblinka (proper noun)
An extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was located in a forest north-east of Warsaw, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the Treblinka train station in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship.
civilian (noun)
a person not in the armed services or the police force.
extermination (noun)
killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.
flat (noun)
a suite of rooms forming one residence, typically on one floor and within a larger building containing a number of such residences; an apartment.
The Allies (proper noun)
a group of nations taking military action together, in particular the countries that fought with the US in World War I and World War II.
jaundice (noun)
a medical condition characterized by yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin and typically caused by obstruction of the bile duct, by liver disease, or by excessive breakdown of red blood cells.
