How did people respond to the Holocaust?

Question 1

Passive positive responses to the Holocaust:

Answer 1

a police reservist deciding not to talk part in the Einsatzgruppen actions |mass shootings)

Question 2

Passive negative responses to the Holocaust:

Answer 2

the British Olympic team attending the 1936 games in Berlin, despite knowing the Anti-Jewish policies of the German government

Question 3

Active positive responses to the Holocaust:

Answer 3

forming a camp in a forest for over 12,000 escaped Jews and conducting armed attacks against the Nazis and their collaborators

Question 4

Active negative responses to the Holocaust:

Answer 4

joining an angry mob of civilians murdering a group of Jews without having any instruction to do so

Question 5

Lodz Ghetto: What did Chaim Rumkowski (Jewish Chairman (leader) of Lodz ghetto) do when told to hand over Jews to the Nazis by the Nazis??

Answer 5

• Jewish leader (Chain Rumkowski) ordered by Nazis to hand over 20000 ppl form the ghettos, asks parents “give me your children”
• Chain Rumkowski able to save kids aged 10+
• sacrificing the sick so the healthy will be able to survive rather than the sick being saved only to die soon later on
• Rumkowski reduced number of Jews sent to concentration camps from 24,000 to 20,000
• kids under 10 only made up 13,000 so sick must be sent too
• Nazis said to Rumkowksi that they wanted 24,000 to be deported to death camps
• he was a victim and a resistor - sent to a concentration camp on last journey and died there
• he had no choice but to carry out instructions from the Nazis
• his actions didn’t work as most of the Lodz ghetto was wiped out - doesn’t make his actions worse

Question 6

What did Adam Czeriniakow (Warsaww Ghetto Chairman) when told to hand over Jews to the Nazis by the Nazis?

Answer 6

committed suicide when told to sign order for Jews to be deported to Treblink extermination camp