Holocaust Quiz

Question 1

How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 1

6 million

Question 2

How many Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 2

abt 1.5 million

Question 3

What was the largest Nazi concentration camp?

Answer 3

Auschwitz

Question 4

What does the Greek word Holocaust mean?

Answer 4

Holo (whole) and kaustos (burned or burnt offering)

Question 5

What was the first concentration camp?

Answer 5

Dachau

Question 6

How many people were killed at Auschwitz?

Answer 6

1.1 million

Question 7

What were the reasons for the persecution of Jews in Europe during the Middle Ages?

Answer 7

• Blamed for killing Jesus
• Targeted scapegoats during the Black Death
• Demonized by Christians
• Blood libels (accused Jews of kidnapping Christian children and crucifying them and drinking their blood)

Question 8

What percentage of the population of Germany in 1933 was Jewish?

Answer 8

less than 1%

Question 9

What event is considered the beginning of the Holocaust?

Answer 9

The Night of Broken Glass

Question 10

Whose army liberates Auschwitz?

Answer 10

Russia’s

Question 11

What is anti-Semitism?

Answer 11

hostile or prejudiced toward Jews

Question 12

What is genocide?

Answer 12

the systematic killing of a whole people or nation

Question 13

What was the Wannsee Conference?

Answer 13

Decisions made for the “final solution” to the “Jewish question”
- Jews would be deported to extermination camps in the East

Question 14

Who led the Wannsee Conference?

Answer 14

Reinhard Heydrich

Question 15

Did the Nazis encourage emigration?

Answer 15

yes

Question 16

Was it easy for Jews to emigrate? why or why not?

Answer 16

No, the great depression

Question 17

What % of emigrating Jews wealth was taxed?

Answer 17

90%

Question 18

How were Jews treated during the Weimar Republic?

Answer 18

They were treated equally by the government and even held political offices. There was still anti-semitism but the government protected them

Question 19

In which operation did Nazis begin using Einsatzgruppen death squads?

Answer 19

Operation Barbarossa

Question 20

In which country most of the extermination camps were located?

Answer 20

Poland

Question 21

What were the early plans for the deportation of Jews?

Answer 21

1st: southeastern Poland reservation where Jews across Europe would be deported
2nd: deporting Europe’s 4 million Jews to the island of Madagascar

Question 22

What laws were passed in the mid-1930s forbidding the marriage of Jews to Germans and also stripped Jews of their citizenship?

Answer 22

Nuremberg Laws

Question 23

What did the Nuremberg Laws do? When were they passed?

Answer 23

passed in the mid-1930s forbidding the marriage of Jews to Germans and also stripped Jews of their citizenship