the holocaust

Question 1

Basic definition of the holocaust

Answer 1

Systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies.

Question 2

How many Jewish died?

Answer 2

6 million (approx.)

Question 3

When and were it took place

Answer 3

Throughout Europe, between 1933 and 1945

Question 4

Other than the Jews, who were also targeted during the Holocaust

Answer 4

Roma, disabled, Communists, gay men and Black people

Question 5

Antisemitism (definition)

Answer 5

hostility towards the Jews

Question 6

Genocide (definition)

Answer 6

systematic killing of people who belong to a particular racial group

Question 7

Who were the SS Einzatzgruppen?

Answer 7

• Special SS units that were assigned to kill Jews and Communists in occupied Poland and Russia.
• Followed the German army
  -‘Mobile killing squads’
• known for their role in the systematic murder of Jews in mass shooting operations

Question 8

Anti-Jewish policy: 1933

Answer 8

-non ‘Aryans’ dismissed from holding government jobs (doctors, lawyers, engineers etc.)
-General boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses
-Books written by Jews and anti-Nazis burned in mass bonfires
-prohibited from producing kosher meat

Question 9

what year where the Nuremburg laws created?

Answer 9

1935

Question 10

What were the two Nuremburg laws?

Answer 10

Reich Citizenship law
-Only people of ‘German or kindred blood’ could be citizens of Germany
-Stripped Jews of German citizenship and deprived them of basic rights
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour
-Banned marriage between Jews and non-Jewish Germans
-Forbade Jews from employing female German maids under the age of 45

Question 11

Explain the significance of the Nuremburg laws

Answer 11

-Meant Jews in Germany were not included as full members of society
-laid foundations for future antisemitic measures by legally distinguishing between German and Jew
-Jews faced persecution for what they were, not what they believed in
-nothing could convert a Jew into a German
-So German blood remained pure and ‘untainted’
-Isolate, humiliate and separate Jews

Question 12

What and when was Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

Answer 12

9-10 November
-approx. 1,400 synagogues were burned and 7,000 stores owned by Jews and hundreds of homes were damaged and looted. 30,000 Jews, mainly leaders in Jew communities sent to concentration camps.

Question 13

significance of Kristallnacht

Answer 13

Government encouraged violence against the Jews- Hitler Youth and SS
-Not just using laws but actually encouraging violence

Question 14

Number of Jewish emigrants between 1938-39

Answer 14

almost 150,000 were able to leave Germany