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Night - by Elie Wiesel Vocabulary

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  • Apathy
    Lack of interest
  • Emotional Resilience
    The ability to adapt to stress and adversity.
  • Persecution
    Hostility and ill-treatment especially because of race, political or religious beliefs
  • Reprieve
    A cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
  • Ghetto
    A part of a city occupied by a minority group especially used during the Holocaust to isolate Jews. (poor conditions)
  • Inhumanity
    Lack of compassion or consideration for others; cruelty.
  • Dissonance
    A lack of harmony among musical notes; in this context the conflict between beliefs and actions.
  • Hope
    A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
  • Fascism
    A political ideology that emphasizes authoritarian nationalism often characterized by dictatorial power.
  • Mortality
    The state of being subject to death; human death.
  • Witness
    A person who sees an event typically a crime or accident
  • Dignity
    The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.
  • Injustice
    Lack of fairness or justice; a violation of the rights of others.
  • Indifference
    Lack of interest, concern or sympathy especially in the context of human suffering.
  • Atonement
    Reparation for a wrong or injury; in a religious context -
  • Defiance
    Open resistance or bold disobedience.
  • Holocaust Denial
    The act of denying the genocide of Jews during World War II.
  • Tribulation
    A cause of great trouble or suffering.
  • Futility
    Pointlessness or uselessness; lacking effectiveness.
  • Faith
    Complete trust or confidence in someone or something often linked to religious belief.
  • Displacement
    The forced removal of people from their homes.
  • Extermination
    The act of killing or destroying completely especially in reference to a group.
  • Oppression
    Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
  • Trauma
    A deeply distressing or disturbing experience especially related to violence or loss.
  • Isolation
    The state of being separated from others; solitude.
  • Despair
    The complete loss or absence of hope.
  • Memory
    The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information often tied to personal experiences.
  • Concentration Camp
    A place where large numbers of people are detained under brutal conditions without trial.
  • Auschwitz
    A Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Poland.
  • Kapo
    A prisoner in a concentration camp assigned by the Nazis to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.
  • Suffering
    The state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship
  • Selection
    The process of determining who would live or die in the camps based on perceived usefulness.
  • Legacy
    Something handed down by a predecessor especially in reference to memory.
  • Compassion
    Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
  • Survival
    The state of continuing to live or exist especially in spite of difficult conditions.
  • Camaraderie
    Mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.
  • Holocaust
    The systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews.
  • Fatalism
    The belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
  • Resistance
    The act of opposing or standing firm against an oppressor.
  • Survivor
    A person who continues to live especially despite hardship or trauma.
  • Sacrifice
    The act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important.
  • Kabbalah
    A mystical interpretation of Jewish law and teachings.
  • Remembrance
    The action of remembering something; a memorial.
  • Oblivion - Oblivious
    The state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening.
  • Desolation
    A state of complete emptiness or destruction; anguish.
  • Humanity
    The quality of being humane; the human race collectively.
  • Genocide
    The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national racial, ethnic or religious group
  • Emaciated
    Abnormally thin or weak especially because of illness or a lack of food.
  • Deportation
    The forced removal of a person from their home or country.
  • Desperation
    A state of despair typically one that results in rash or extreme behavior.
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