GLOSSARY
Anti-Semitism: Prejudice directed against Jewish people.
Auschwitz: One of the deadliest concentration camps, located in modern-day Poland. Also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Bergen-Belsen: A concentration camp in northern Germany notorious for its lack of food and poor sanitation. Frankl’s first wife, Tilly, died in Bergen-Belsen in 1944.
Capo: A concentration camp prisoner who was appointed to oversee the forced labor of other prisoners.
Concentration camps: Places in which the Nazis imprisoned and exterminated Jews and other minorities.
Dachau: A concentration camp located in southern Germany.
Gas chambers: Rooms in which victims of the Holocaust were killed by poison gas.
Gestapo: The secret police force of Nazi Germany that targeted perceived opponents of the Nazis.
Holocaust: Term used to describe the Nazi genocide of some six million Jews and millions of other victims.
Kaufering: A subsidiary camp of Dachau, located in Germany.
Frankl was imprisoned here in 1944.
Nazi Germany: Also known as the Third Reich, this refers to Germany when it was controlled by Adolf Hitler and characterized by racism, anti-Semitism, and oppression. Officially, the Nazi Party was known as the National Socialist Party.
SS: The Nazi military organization that carried out surveillance, arrests, and executions for Adolf Hitler.
Theresienstadt: A concentration camp located in the modern-day Czech Republic. Frankl was imprisoned here before being transferred to the Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Türkheim camps.
Türkheim: A subsidiary of the Dachau camp, located in Germany.
Frankl was imprisoned here until 1945, when the camp was liberated by American soldiers.
