Holocaust

Question 1

Anti-semitism

Answer 1

Predudice against the jews as a racial or cultural group

Question 2

Aryan

Answer 2

Non-jewish caucasian group seen by the nazis as superior often associated with blue eyes and blond hair

Question 3

Boycott

Answer 3

Collective action involving the refusal to conduct commerce with a particular group as a punishment

Question 4

Diasphora

Answer 4

The spread of jewish people out of their historic homeland

Question 5

Genocide

Answer 5

The systematic extermination of a racial or cultural group

Question 6

What is the religious belief system of the jews?

Answer 6

Judaism

Question 7

Petty apartheid

Answer 7

Low level discrimination aimed at identifying and separating racial groups in a society. Eg shop boycotts

Question 8

Pogrom

Answer 8

Violent attack against a particular ethnic or racial group

Question 9

What is the jewish scripture?

Answer 9

Torah

Question 10

What is the un?

Answer 10

United nations, is a international body set up after ww2 with their main goal of promoting development and avoiding future wars.

Question 11

UNSCOP

Answer 11

United Nation Special Commision On Palestine

Question 12

Zionism

Answer 12

Political and cultural movement dedicated to the establishment of a jewish homeland as a refugee against persecution

Question 13

How many jews did the nazi’s murder?

Answer 13

6 million, a quarter of whom where children

Question 14

Where was adolf hitler born? When was he born?

Answer 14

Austria, 20th April 1889.

Question 15

NSDAP or nazi’s (long version)

Answer 15

National Socialist german worker party

Question 16

Which two positions did hitler combine to make fuhrer?

Answer 16

Chancellor and president

Question 17

When did hitler become chancellor?

Answer 17

30th of January, 1933

Question 18

What are the stages of hitlers anti-jewish actions?

Answer 18

Petty apartheid
Nuremberg laws
Krystallnacht
Public identification

Question 19

What was krystallnacht?

Answer 19

The night of brocken glass. A series of violent attacks against jews and jewish property across germany in nov 1938.
This is a turning point > violence against jews is seen as socially acceptable.

Question 20

What was the public identification of jews?

Answer 20

• all jewish passports and identity documents to be marked with a ‘J’
• all jews to wear the yellow star of david
• forced to change their names, males Israel and females Sarah

Question 21

When did germany invade polland?

Answer 21

1st of September 1939

Question 22

What were the 6 extermination camps?

Answer 22

Belzec
Chelmno
Sobibor
Majdanec
Treblinka
Auschwitz-Birkenau

Question 23

The most holy day in the jewish calendar?

Answer 23

Yom kipur or day of atonement

Question 24

The largest jewish ghetto?

Answer 24

Warsaw

Question 25

First concentration camp opened by the nazis in 1933

Answer 25

Dachau