Holocaust Flashcards
What is a ghetto?
An isolated or segregated group
What was the poison gas used at Auschwitz ?
Zyklon B
When was Dachau set up?
March 22nd 1933
What was the message written at the entrance gate at Auschwitz ?
Arbeit macht frei ‘work sets you free’
On what date was the Dachau camp liberated by the American army?
April 29th 1945
List fur groups of prisoners held at Dachau
Jews, Homosexuals, gypsies and Jehovah’s Witnesses
Name three concentration camps
Bergon Belsen
Dachau
Vught
Name four things the nazis did
Tried to eliminate the Jews, killed mentally disabled babies, sterilised people of colour and killed mentally ill patients
In what year were “Jews not wanted here’ signs put up?
1935
In 1933 what happened?
Jewish businesses were banned, Jewish lawyers and teachers were sacked, and Race Science lessons taught that Jews were Untermensch (beneath animals)
Name three death camps
Auschwitz
Birker
Treblinka
What is the ‘Aryon Race’?
The perfect race according to Nazis; natural blonde hair and blue eyes
Name two things the nazis did with Jess’s hair and belongings
Used their hair to make felt-yarn and took the gold from wedding rings and their teeth to make gold bars
Nazis racial philosophy taught that so,e races were…
Untermensch (sub-human)
What is Anti - Seminism?
A hatred of Jews
