Holocaust and Genocide Unit
Vocabulary List #1
Test: Thursday 11/17/2016
1. Emigration: the act of leaving one country or region to settle in another.
2. Selection: the act of being chosen to go to the gas chamber at Auschwitz, during WWII.
3. Billet: lodged, used to refer to temporary lodging of military personnel in private homes or other private buildings.
4.Passover: a Jewish holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt
5.Treatise: an official public proclamation or order issued by an authority, such as a governmental or military authority
6. Expounding: stating in detail; explaining
7. Premonition: a feeling that something is about to happen
8. Edict: proclamation or order, command
9. Phylacteries: Small cases holding copies of passages from Scripture worn on the forehead and Left arm during morning and weekday prayers
10. Truncheons’: short, thick clubs