Holocaust

Question 1

The Holocaust was an attempt by the Germans to get rid of what?

Answer 1

All “inferior races”

Question 2

Approximately how many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 2

6 million

Question 3

When did Hitler come to power? When did continue until?

Answer 3

1933

1945

Question 4

Who was the second most powerful Nazi?

Answer 4

Heinrich Himmler

Question 5

Who worked to help Jewish people?

Answer 5

Oskar Schindler

Question 6

About how many non-Jews were killed?

Answer 6

5 million

Question 7

There were many concentration camps and sup-camps during the War- A famous one is ________\_____ located in ____

Answer 7

Auschwitz/ Birkenau

Poland

Question 8

When the war started, what were the Jews forced to wear? Why?

Answer 8

Yellow Star of David with the work Jude written on it

Nazi’s and other could identify them as Jews

Question 9

What was the events were 90 Jews were killed- temples, synagogues, Jewish businesses, and Jewish cemeteries were set on fire or destroyed?

Answer 9

Kristallnact “Night of Broken Glass”- 2 days

Question 10

Who were the first victims in the Holocaust?

Answer 10

The disabled

Question 11

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 11

Basis for the discrimination against Jews

Question 12

Who was the Holocaust hidden from, until the end of the war?

Answer 12

Allied Powers

Question 13

“The Nazi party was proclaimed by law to be the only legal _____ party in Germany”

Answer 13

Political

Question 14

Between 1933 and 1939, how many Jews were emigrated from Germany?

Answer 14

304,500

Question 15

How many Jewish communities were wiped out during the Holocaust?

Answer 15

5,000

Question 16

The total number of Jewish people that died represented a ____ of all Jewish people _____ at the time

Answer 16

1/3

Alive

Question 17

What started WWII? Who was it started by?

Answer 17

The invasion of Poland in September 1939

Germany

Question 18

What is VE Day (Victory in Europe Day)?

Answer 18

End of World War II and Nazi Germany, May 7th and 8th 1945

Question 19

What were the different types of camps?

Answer 19

Ghettos, Concentration, forced labor, and extermination

Question 20

How many kids were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 20

1.5 million

Question 21

“The Final Solution”

Answer 21

The Nazi’s plan to exterminate Jewish people during WWII

Question 22

T/F: Some people believe the Holocaust didn’t happen?

Answer 22

True

Question 23

What is the word “Holocaust” derived from?

Answer 23

Greek word meaning completely burnt

Question 24

Who were examples of other who were killed other than the Jews during WWII? (11)

Answer 24

Soviets, Polish Catholics, Serbian, Roma “gypsies”, journalists, teachers, activists, handicaps, homosexuals, alcoholics, Jehovah’s witnesses

Question 25

Jews people were the _______ for the collapse of ______ after _____

Answer 25

Scapegoat
Germany
WWI

Question 26

Which country ferried 7,800 Jews from Germany to safety in Sweden? How many Jews were alive after the war?

Answer 26

Denmark (Danish)

99%

Question 27

What the Germans use the Jews for?

Answer 27

Preform medical experiments on during the Holocaust

Question 28

More than 250,000 Jews were labeled as “_____” after World War II ended? Where did they live from 1945-1952?

Answer 28

Displaced Persons

Camps and centers in Germany, Austria, Italy while trying to find their families

Question 29

What were the presiones in Auschwitz given? Why?

Answer 29

Tattoos with numbers so they could be identified

Question 30

On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations

Answer 30

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