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| Bruno’s way of pronouncing Fuhrer, which is the German term for “leader” and was a title used for Hitler. |
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| Fuhrer: “All he could say was that his father was a man to watch and that the Fury had big things in mind for him.” page 4 |
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| barren; deserted; uninhabited; lonely or solitary |
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| desolate: “The new house, however, stood all on its own in an empty, desolate place and there were no other houses anywhere to be seen, which meant there would be no other families around and no other boys to play with, neither friends nor trouble.” page 11 |
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| The location of Bruno’s new home. Bruno believes it is called “Out-With,” when in reality it is Auschwitz, one of the largest concentration camps during the Holocaust. |
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Auschwitz: “I heard Father say that whoever lived here at Out-With before us lost their job very quickly and didn’t have time to make the place nice for us."
"Out-With?" asked Bruno. "What’s an Out-With?"
"It’s not an Out-With, Bruno," said Gretel with a sigh. ‘It’s just Out-With.’” page 24 |
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| The German internal security police as organized under the Nazi regime, known for its terrorist methods directed against those suspected of treason or questionable loyalty. |
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| A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions. |
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| usually established in the poor sections of a city, where most of the Jews from the city and surrounding areas were subsequently forced to reside. Often surrounded by barbed wire or walls, the ghettos were sealed. Established mostly in eastern Europe (e.g., Lodz, Warsaw, Vilna, Riga, or Minsk), the ghettos were characterized byovercrowding, malnutrition, and heavy labor. All were eventually dissolved, and the Jews murdered. |
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| The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural, or religious group. |
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| False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of the population. |
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| A language that combines elements of German and Hebrew. |
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| Biased generalizations about a group based on hearsay, opinions, and distorted, preconceived ideas. |
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| A six-pointed star which is a symbol of Judaism. During the Holocaust, Jews throughout Europe were required to wear Stars of David on their sleeves or fronts and backs of their shirts and jackets. |
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| A complex consisting of concentration, extermination, and labor camps in Upper Silesia. It was established in 1940 as a concentration camp and included a killing center in 1942. Auschwitz I: The main camp. Auschwitz II (Also known as Birkenau): The extermination center. Auschwitz III (Monowitz): The I.G. Farben labor camp, also known as Buna. In addition, there were numerous subsidiary camps. |
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| ignorance of evil; freedom from sin or guilt; harmlessness; lack of knowledge of the world |
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| title of a senior officer in the military, person of high rank |
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| Commandant: “Fathers are supposed to be serious. It doesn’t matter whether they’re greengrocers or teachers or chefs or commandants," he said, listing all the jobs that he knew decent, respectable fathers did..” page 19 |
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| a group of prisoners chained together while engaged in forced labor |
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| Chain Gang: “Some stood perfectly still in groups, their hands by their sides, trying to keep their heads up, as a soldier marched in front of them, his mouth opening and closing quickly as if he were shouting something at them. Some were formed into a sort of chain gang and pushing wheelbarrows from one side of the camp to the other…” pshr 36 |
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| firmness of purpose; resolve; a fixed intention or resolution |
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| determination: “We should never have let the Fury come to dinner,’” she said. “ ‘Some people and their determination to get ahead.” –Mother speaking to Bruno |
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