Name______________________________________________________________________
Holocaust History Questions
to accompany Holocaust History Info Pack.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Anti-Semitism~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. The term anti-Semitism was used to mean ____________________________
_______________________________________________________________________, but
Semitism actually refers to __________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
2. For how long has there been Jewish persecution? (Not an exact number of
years). ________________________________________________________________
3. Contrary to what the Nuremberg Laws state, Judaism is / is not a race.
4. a) According to the Nuremberg Laws, how was a person determined to be
Jewish? ________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
b) Many people being labeled as Jewish according to these laws were
surprised because ________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Overview & Kristallnacht~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5. _________________________________________________________ was the Nazi’s
codename for the deliberate, planned mass murder of all European Jews.
6. ______________________________ European Jews from __________________
HOW MANY?
HOW MANY?
countries would be killed under this heinous plan?
7. How were Jews transported to the concentration and death camps?
________________________________________________________________________
8. “Nazi” stood for ____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.
9. What was the name of Hitler’s pure German “master race?”
______________________
10. What does Kristallnacht (kris-TAHL-nocked) mean?
_______________________________________________________________________
11. On what two dates did Kristallnacht occur? ________________________
Describe briefly what happened and why.
~~~~~~~~~~~Other Groups Persecuted~~~~~~~~~~~
12. Name other groups persecuted along with the Jews. (as many as you can)
________________________________ ___________________________________
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___________________________________
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13. Why didn’t more Jews living under Nazi rule flee?
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
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14. TRUE or FALSE
Most countries were very welcoming to the Jews
fleeing Germany.
15. How many people were on the St. Louis? ____________________________
16. Where were they headed? _________________________________________
17. How many St. Louis passengers were allowed to go ashore in Cuba? ________
18. After England, Holland, Belgium, and France took in passengers, what
happened to the rest?
______________________________________________________________________________
19. TRUE or FALSE
Ultimately, most of the St. Louis passengers ended up safe.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ghettos & Concentration Camps~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
20. Germany’s invasion of _____________________________ on ___________________
What country?
Date
kicked off World War II.
21. What did the Nazis do when the public protested to killing “incurable”
mentally or physically disabled people (the “euthanasia” program)?
______________________________________________________________________________
**NOTE** People were less horrified by what was happening to Jews because of
the language that was being used to refer to it. Euphemisms (YOU-fuh-miz-im)
are more pleasant ways of saying bad things.
22 Define euthanasia______________________________________________________
Why is euthanasia considered a euphemism? ____________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
23. What is a euphemism for died? ____________________________________
24. “Vertically challenged” might be a euphemism for __________________.
25. The euphemism “going to the showers” meant ___________________________
26.
a)Describe
some details of life in the ghettos.
b)How
are the ghettos of 1930s
& 1940s Europe different from what we know as ghettos in America?
c)How
are
they the same?
_____________________________________________________________________________
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27. In order to implement “the final solution to the Jewish question,” Jews were
sent to killing centers in the East (Poland) (see map on my teacher page). Which
of the six killing centers also served as a concentration and slave labor camp
where the largest number of European Jews and Roma were killed?
_____________________________________________________________________
28. What was the name of the gas used in the gas chambers? _________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Resistence~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
29. Where was the first mass revolt in Nazi-occupied Europe?
_________________________________________________________________________
30. For how many days were the Warsaw Jews able to hold off the Nazis in 1943?
_________________________________________________
31. How was the Warsaw Ghetto destroyed? _________________________________
32. Where else was there physical resistance? ________________________________
_________________________________
33. List examples of spiritual resistance.
34. Why is spiritual resistance just as important as physical resistance? (Re-read
Life and Death in the Ghettos & basically, use common sense.)
_____________________________________________________________________________
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_____________________________________________________________________________
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rescuers~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
35. TRUE or FALSE
Oskar Schindler was a Nazi.
36. What types of things did Schindler do to protect “his Jews?”
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
37. How many Jews did Oskar Schindler save? ________________________________
38. What famous Jewish movie director directed the movie Schindler’s List?
_____________________________________________________________________________
39. How did Raoul Wallenburg save Jews?
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
40. What country took in the fleeing Danish (from Denmark) Jews?
________________________________________________________
41. Approximately how many Danish Jews were saved by Denmark’s rescue
mission? _______________________________________________________________
42. What was the name of the woman who protected Ann Frank and her
family? ___________________________________________________________________
43. What group of people were rescued by the Kindertransport? Where did
they go?
________________________________________________________________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of the War & Nuremberg Trials~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
44. The transport of Jews on foot from concentration camps outside of Germany
to within Germany’s borders was called ______________________________________.
45. What were the two (2) main problems faced by the victorious Allies at the
end of WWII?
1.____________________________________________________________________________
2.___________________________________________________________________________
46. How many judges presided over the Nuremburg Trials? _____________________
47. What were the four categories of crimes tried?
1. ________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________
48.. How long did the Nuremberg Trials last? __________________________________
49. How long did it take to announce the verdicts and sentences? ____________
50. How many of the 24 charged were actually convicted and What was their
sentence? ______________________________________________
References
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<http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/a-child-dying-in-thestreets-of-the-crowded-warsaw-ghetto.jpg>.
Kids Huddled on Curb in Ghetto. 7 January 2011.
<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/static/blogs/20090416065923.jpg>.
Marching to Forced Labor Outside of Ghetto. 7 January 2011.
<http://modiya.nyu.edu/bitstream/1964/190/4/KazimierzSt_schindler_v3.jpg>.
Moger, Susan. Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank. News York: Scholastic, 1998.
Nuremberg Trials, Two Defendants. 7 January 2011.
<http://www.chnarmy.com/attachments/2010/11/0_2010112006500142b
Rb.jpg>.
Nuremberg Trials, Group. 7 January.
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