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Holocaust
The systematic genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II
Wiesel memoir bears witness to his experience surviving the Holocaust in concentration camps
Auschwitz
The largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex located in occupied Poland
Wiesel and his father were transported to Auschwitz where they were separated from his mother and sisters
Birkenau
The extermination section of Auschwitz where most prisoners were killed upon arrival
New arrivals at Birkenau faced selection determining immediate death or forced labor
Selection
The process where Nazi officers chose which prisoners would live as laborers and which would die
Prisoners lived in constant fear of selection which could send them to the gas chambers
Crematorium
The facilities where bodies of murdered prisoners were burned
The chimneys of the crematoria burned day and night disposing of countless victims
Kapo
A prisoner given authority over other prisoners often brutal to maintain their position
Some Kapos were as cruel as the Nazi guards trading humanity for survival advantages
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