Holocaust Final Review

Question 1

A six-pointed star the Jews were forced to wear on their sleeves.

Answer 1

Star of David

Question 2

A pesticide used in some of the gas chambers in death camps.

Answer 2

Zyklon B

Question 3

Opposition to and discrimination against Jews.

Answer 3

Anti-Semitism

Question 4

Nazi racial theory, a person of pure German “blood.”

Answer 4

Aryan

Question 5

A concentration camp inmate appointed by the SS to be in charge of a work gang.

Answer 5

Kapo

Question 6

An organized and often officially encouraged massacre of or attack on Jews.

Answer 6

Pogrom

Question 7

An ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazi as their emblem.

Answer 7

Swastika

Question 8

Forced marches of prisoners over long distances and under intolerable conditions.

Answer 8

Death marches

Question 9

The deliberate and systematic murder of a racial, political, cultural, or religious group.

Answer 9

Genocide

Question 10

Also known as the Night of the Broken Glass; Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed.

Answer 10

Kristallnacht

Question 11

Often surrounded by barbed wire or walls, these were sealed off sections of the city, where thousands of Jews were forced to live under harsh, close conditions with other families.

Answer 11

Ghetto

Question 12

Greek for “a sacrifice totally burned by fire,” and known today as the planned extermination of six million European Jews and millions of others by the Nazis.

Answer 12

Holocaust

Question 13

SS physician at Auschwitz, who carried out cruel medical experiments on prisoners.

Answer 13

Dr. Mengele

Question 14

A complex consisting of concentration, extermination, and labor camps in Upper Silesia. Was also the largest concentration camp.

Answer 14

Auschwitz

Question 15

Prisons used without regard to accepted norms of arrest and detention. Death, disease, starvation, crowded and unsanitary conditions and torture were a daily part of these establishments. The main focus of this prison was to exterminate the Jews.

Answer 15

Concentration Camp

Question 16

Large chambers in which people were executed by poison gas.

Answer 16

Gas chamber

Question 17

A place in the concentration camps where the Nazis would burn the dead bodies of the Jewish people.

Answer 17

Crematorium

Question 18

Nazi party leader, German Chancellor, and referred to as “Fuhrer” by the Nazis. Wanted to exterminate the Jewish existence from the human race.

Answer 18

Adolf Hitler

Question 19

The Nazi policy of denying Jews basic civil rights, such as practicing religion, education, and adequate housing. Also denied Jews the use of their names.

Answer 19

Dehumanization

Question 20

A Nazi rewording for the plan to exterminate all the Jews in Europe.

Answer 20

Final Solution

Question 21

What was tattooed on the Jewish people’s arms and chests at concentration camps?

Answer 21

Numbers

Question 22

Who did the Jewish people in the concentration camps wish and hope to see free them?

Answer 22

The American or Russian soldiers

Question 23

Hitler wanted to keep Aryan people alive, and exterminate the Jews. What did Aryan people look like?

Answer 23

Blonde hair, blue eyes, pale skin

Question 24

The main character’s mother, was told to go to the left at selection.

Answer 24

Elly’s mom

Question 25

The German men who followed Hitler and killed the Jews

Answer 25

The Nazis

Question 26

The Nazi doctor who performed deathly experiments on Jews.

Answer 26

Dr. Mengele

Question 27

The main character who survived the Holocaust

Answer 27

Elly

Question 28

The man who wanted to kill all Jews in his Final Solution

Answer 28

Adolf Hitler

Question 29

Man who died in a fire, in a forced labor camp, on a death march.

Answer 29

Elly’s father

Question 30

Main character’s little brother, who was told to go left.

Answer 30

Adalbert

Question 31

The man character’s husband, who she married after liberation.

Answer 31

Ernest

Question 32

The Kapo who saved Elly’s life, by making her work when she was sick.

Answer 32

Brana Heller

Question 33

Lady who asked Elly to draw designs on her cup, like on her bowl.

Answer 33

Anne Marie

Question 34

Where is the setting of Elly?

Answer 34

World War II, during the Holocaust, mostly in Auschwitz

Question 35

Where is Elly’s hometown?

Answer 35

Simleu Silvaniei, Romania

Question 36

What happened to Elly’s hometown when the Nazi’s took over?

Answer 36

It was turned into a ghetto

Question 37

What did Elly do on the cattle cart, on the way to the concentration camp?

Answer 37

She carved a hole in the wall, so her and her family could breathe

Question 38

What were the three sections of the concentration camp at Auschwitz?

Answer 38

Auschwitz II/Birkenau, Buna, Killing Center

Question 39

Which concentration camp did Elly death march to, after Auschwitz?

Answer 39

Fallersleben

Question 40

Who liberated Elly’s concentration camp, and what day was it?

Answer 40

The American and Allied armies, and it was April 14, 1945

Question 41

What does Arbeit Macht Frei mean? (It was the sign on the entrance of the camp)

Answer 41

Work Makes You Free

Question 42

For the duration of the Holocaust, what were the Jews fed by the Nazis?

Answer 42

Bread made from sawdust and rusty water