The Holocaust

Question 1

What were the Ghettos?

Answer 1

Places for Jews so they could suffer and be separated from the rest of society. The Warsaw ghetto in Poland was the largest.

Question 2

What were conditions in the Ghettos like?

Answer 2

• vastly overcrowded
• bedbugs
• no soap or privacy
• rapid spread of diseases like typhus
• separation from their families
• 300 calories a day and older people got less food
• slave labour

Question 3

What is meant by the ‘final solution’?

Answer 3

On 20 January 1942, Nazi leaders met to finalize their plans for the mass murder of every Jew in Europe, either by working them to death or killing them in poison gas chambers.

Question 4

How where the Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?

Answer 4

They were sent to death camps and the biggest was Auschwitz-opened in 1940. When they arrived, the prisoners were immediately sorted into 2 groups: those who looked over 15 and were healthy were sent to the left; the old, sick, pregnant and women with young kids were sent to the right. Those on the left were forced to murder those on the right. Any refusals would result in a death sentence.

Question 5

What is eugenics?

Answer 5

The science of using controlled breeding or genetic manipulation to simply produce desired qualities or features.