history- the holocaust

Question 1

Which groups faced persecution during the Holocaust

Answer 1

Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, jehovahs witnesses, disabled, etc

Question 2

Righteous persons

Answer 2

Non Jews who risked their lives to save Jewish people’s in the Holocaust

Question 3

Poland

Answer 3

Largest population of Jews -> all 6 death camps locate here for efficiency

Question 4

Ghettos

Answer 4

Segregated Jewish areas where they lived

Question 5

Therienstadt ghetto

Answer 5

Red Cross went to ghetto and nazis made everyone out on a play that everything was Great

Question 6

Warsaw ghetto

Answer 6

Uprisings here

Question 7

Aushwitz-Birkenau

Answer 7

A combination camp that has many survivors because it was both a death camp and a Work camp

Question 8

Sobibor

Answer 8

Was turned into a death camp -> Jews tried to blow hole in the wall by slowly bringing gunpowder -> didn’t work bc eventually captured again

Question 9

Genocide

Answer 9

The intentional Killing of a specific entire people

Question 10

Holocaust

Answer 10

Systematic murder of over 11 million ppl across Europe over half were Jews

Question 11

Scapegoat

Answer 11

Blamed Jews for eveyrthing, so they had a reason for killing them

Question 12

Master race

Answer 12

Pure Germans (aryans)

Question 13

Boycott

Answer 13

Government-sanctioned boycotts of Jewish stores and businesses

Question 14

Book burning

Answer 14

Anything that was written by Jews, had enlightenment ideas, or downgraded the German master race

Question 15

Nuremberg laws

Answer 15

Restrictions against Jews

Question 16

Nuremberg laws examples

Answer 16

Can’t take jobs where they have influence over people
Can’t have jobs where they’re seen as heroes
Can’t marry a non Jew
No citizenship
Jews Names eraser from ww1 memorials
Can’t shop at Aryan stores
Definition of a Jew

Question 17

Kristallnacht (night of broken glass)

Answer 17

Jewish boy’s dad was deported after living here for long time -> boy shot a nazi diplomat-> gave nazis a reason to do kristallnacht where they killed Jews, destroyed homes and stores

Question 18

Concentration camps

Answer 18

Work camp

Question 19

Taken to concentration camps by …

Answer 19

Cattle carb

Question 20

Two types of camps

Answer 20

Concentration camps (work camps)
Or death camps
Separated by strength

Question 21

Identification symbols in concentration camps

Answer 21

Yellow Star of David stitched into suits, or upside down triangles in different colors

Question 22

First phase of Holocaust and what happened

Answer 22

Legal persecution :
Government sanctioned boycotts
Nuremberg laws

Question 23

Second phase

Answer 23

Expulsion and deportation:

Ghettos and concentration camps

Question 24

Third phase

Answer 24

Final solution:

Death camps

Question 25

Resistance to Holocaust

Answer 25

Ghetto revolts
Inmates in concentration camps revolt
Righteous Persons group

Question 26

Nuremberg trials

Answer 26

People who carried out Holocaust are put on trial for crimes against humanity (1st time doing it for this)
Most punished with death