Holocaust

Question 1

What was the Holocaust?

Answer 1

The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War Two.

Question 2

What was the first concentration camp established by the Nazis?

Answer 2

Dachau, established in 1933.

Question 3

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 3

Anti-Semitic laws enacted in 1935 that excluded Jews from German citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and non-Jews.

Question 4

What event marked the beginning of the mass deportation of Jews to extermination camps?

Answer 4

The Wannsee Conference in January 1942

Question 5

The night of the broken glass

Answer 5

A massacre against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on November 9-10, 1938, also known as the Night of Broken Glass.

Question 6

Name three extermination camps used during the Holocaust.

Answer 6

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor.

Question 7

What other groups were targeted during the Holocaust?

Answer 7

Roma (Gypsies), disabled individuals, Polish and Soviet civilians, political prisoners, and homosexuals.

Question 8

What was the purpose of the ghettos established by the Nazis?

Answer 8

To segregate Jews from the rest of the population and facilitate their deportation to concentration and extermination camps.

Question 9

When did the Holocaust end?

Answer 9

With the Allied liberation of concentration camps in 1945.