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Cabbala:
A form of mysterious teachings of rabbinical origin.

Concentration camp:
A place where the government places prisoners or members of national or minority groups for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment. Camps are made to house many people in crowed conditions.

Crematory:
A big oven that was used to dispose corpse of the Jewish prisoners in concentration camps during World War II.

Deportation:
The process in which all of the Jews in Sighet were removed from their homes and placed in ghettos and then later sent off to concentration camps to be killed. This was the easiest way to kill a large number of people. It would be hard to execute the killing of a lot of people if they are all over the city. Hungarian police did the procedure.

Deportee:
To expel/dismiss someone from a country
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