Holocaust

Question 1

Definition of the holocaust

Answer 1

The killing of 6 million Jews between

Question 2

When do schools consider the beginning of Holocaust

Answer 2

1941- first planned killing

Question 3

Leon Greenman

Answer 3

Born in east London in 1910 and got married 1935 and lived peacefully in the Netherlands until 1942.
He tried to save his family from Auschwitz but he was the only one to survive and by pure chance after his wife and child were killed in the gas chambers.

Question 4

Antisemetism

Answer 4

The discrimination against Jews

Question 5

Genocide

Answer 5

Genos (race/tribe) cide (latin for kill)

Question 6

No of Jews who lived in Poland

Answer 6

3 million Jews in Poland- most spoke Yiddish

Question 7

when did Wilhem Marr claim Jews as a race not a religion

Answer 7

1879

Question 8

What is the main cause of antisemitism

Answer 8

Christians blames jews for Christ’s crucifixion

Question 9

Political stimuli of antisemitism

Answer 9

Russian revolution was rumored to be started by communists who were considered Jews

Question 10

earliest record of antisemitism

Answer 10

On a tax collection document. It depicts Isaac Lunet and his wife wife as they were wealthy tax collectors eventhough Jews were taxed more heavily

Question 11

England’s largest Antisemitist attack

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1190CE- 150 Jews were locked up and killed

Question 12

How did the Nazis appeal to different demographics

Answer 12

Rich people- not communist
Nationalists- Make Germany great again
Poor people- Germans get benefits

Question 13

What was the fruher meant to represent

Answer 13

The people and their ideologies

Question 14

When were Jewish kids no longer able to go to school

Answer 14

june 1942

Question 15

What was the purpose of Laws in Nazi Germany

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To isolate Jewish people so it would be easier to dehumanise and slaughter them

Question 16

Nuremberg Laws

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1)The Reich Citizenship Law required that all citizens have German “blood.” As a result, Jews and others lost their rights to citizenship, which not only stripped them of the right to vote but also made them stateless.
2)The second law was called the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, which meant that Jews couldn’t integrate or marry Germans

Question 17

Who was Chaim Rumkowski

Answer 17

He was a leader of a Jewish ghetto (Lodz ghetto) who had to give 20,000 Jews to the Nazis- gave mostly children

Question 18

Zionists

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Jew who wanted to move to Palestein

Question 19

Kristallnacht

Answer 19

9-10th November 1938- Led to the destruction of many Jewish properties and it was the first time that there was organised violence of such a scale against Jews
Fire Brigade only doused non Jewish property

Question 20

Countries occupied by Germany and anti semitism there

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Netherlands- Captured May 1941 deportation in Feb 1942
France- Defeated in June 1940 and Antisemitic laws in 1941
Denmark- Safe cuz second only to Ayarn
Hungary- joined axis in 1940 Jews forced to work manual labour camps and fight in war(tried protecting Jews in 1943 for a year)

Question 21

What were ghettos

Answer 21

They were a temporary solution to the “Jewish problem” secluded bits of cities where Jews were forced to move to

Question 22

Amidah

Answer 22

Standing up against

Question 23

Types of resistance

Answer 23

Spiritual
Physical
ect..

Question 24

Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Answer 24

1943 (19th April lasted 27 days)- Was the first large scale uprising from the ghettos and paved the way for many more
About 700 young Jewish fighters participated in what became known as the Warsaw ghetto uprising
Set up fighters with primitive weapons and Molotov cocktails

Question 25

Wilhem Hosenfeld

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helped Jewish man escape- gave him supplies and asked
his name and he echoed the sentiment of how awful it was

Question 26

Babin Ya

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the massacre of around 33,771 Jews suspected to be communists - marked the start of the Holocaust by bullets

Question 27

The Holocaust by bullets

Answer 27

killed 2.2 million Jews
Shows how heavily implanted the mindset of antisemitism was ingrained

Question 28

The Wannsee Conference

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20th Jan 1942- The 5 leading Nazis finalised the final solution

Question 29

Common themes from liberated Jews

Answer 29

Many looked like death and Children were desensitized
Calling it “a vision of hell” many died from over doing nutrients after liberated

Question 30

Liberation of main camps

Answer 30

Auschwitz 27th Jan 1945 (USSR)
Bergen Belsen- 15th April 1945