The Holocaust

Question 1

what happened on 1st April 1933?

Answer 1

one-day boycott of jewish shops in germany.

Question 2

what happened in 1935?

Answer 2

nuremburg laws discriminate against jews.

Question 3

what happened in november 1938?

Answer 3

kristallnacht attacks on jews, their business and synagogues.

Question 4

what happened in 1939?

Answer 4

nazis start putting polish jews into ghettoes.

Question 5

what happened in 1941?

Answer 5

final solution begins: einsatzgruppen shooting of soviet jews.

Question 6

what happened in 1942?

Answer 6

wannsee conference plans the gassing of all the jews in europe.

Question 7

who was adolf hitler?

Answer 7

nazi leader who hated jewish people.

Question 8

who was reinhard heydrich?

Answer 8

a nazi who ordered and organised the holocaust.

Question 9

who was heinrich himmler?

Answer 9

nazi head of the ss (nazi organisation that ran the death camps) who were in charge of death camps.

Question 10

who was yehuda bauer?

Answer 10

israeli historian who stresses jewish resistance to the holocaust.

Question 11

what is a ghetto?

Answer 11

enclosed part of a town where jews were forced to live.

Question 12

what is anti-semitism?

Answer 12

hatred of and discrimination against jewish people.

Question 13

what was einsatzgruppen?

Answer 13

mobile killing squad that rounded up jews and shot them during ww2.

Question 14

what was nuremburg?

Answer 14

place where laws were passed in 1935 that said jewish people could not marry non-jews or be german citizens.

Question 15

what is a synagogue?

Answer 15

jewish temple.

Question 16

what was auschwitz-birkenau?

Answer 16

location of the most notorious nazi death camp, where over 1 million jewish people are though to have died.

Question 17

what does amidah mean?

Answer 17

hebrew term which means resistance-how jewish people resisted the holocaust.

Question 18

what was kristallnacht?

Answer 18

Night of Broken Glass in november 1938, when groups of nazis destroyed jewish property. at least 200 jews were killed.

Question 19

what does boycott mean? and when did it happen?

Answer 19

refusing to take part in something as a punishment or protest: the nazis ordered a boycott of jewish shops in 1933.

Question 20

what is the ‘ss’?

Answer 20

nazi organisation that ran the death camps.

Question 21

what are 5 reasons for the nazis gaining support?

Answer 21

• nazis had support from a big business.
• the rise in unemployment.
• hitler promised a stronger germany and hitler used effective propaganda.
• the nazis promised jobs to the unemployed.
• hitler blamed the jews for the economic collapse and struggles of germany after ww1.

Question 22

what are 3 historical reasons for anti-semitism? (hatred of and discrimination against jewish people).

Answer 22

1. jews were blamed for the crucifixion of christ.
2. jews were blamed for the black death although many jews were killed by the disease.
3. jews were driven out of many western european countries in the middle ages. they were expelled from england in 1920, from france in 1306 and in 1394.

ALL OF THESE ACTIONS MADE JEWS DIFFERENT AND VICTIMS OF PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION.