The Holocaust Flashcards
Who was Hitler?
Chancellor of Germany
When did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany
1933
What is persecution?
The ill treatment of a person
What is racial persecution?
Persecuting someone on the base of their race. Can also be seen as persecution of the grounds of their appearance
What is religious persecution?
Persecuting someone on the grounds of their religious beliefs
What is hostility, prejudice or discrimination against Jews known as?
Antisemitism
How long have Jews been persecuted for?
Centuries
What year were the Nuremberg laws introduced?
1935
What are the Nuremberg Laws
They acted as a way of stripping German Jews of their rights. They removed citizenship, they weren’t allowed to work in civil service and weren’t allowed to marry Aryan Germans
What year was Kristallnacht
1938
What does Kristallnacht mean
The night of broken glass
What was Kristallnacht
A Jewish man shot a Nazi in the German Embassy in Paris
Attacks on Jewish property and businesses began on the night of the 9th November
Hitler fined the Jewish population 1 billion Reichsmarks as compensation for the damage.
The fact that there was no international intervention meant that violence against the Jews escalated even further as there were no repercussions.
What is a ghetto
A part of a city, usually a slum area, occupied by a minority group
Ghetto conditions
Poor. People died of starvation and disease regularly.
Ghettos were often sealed off from the outside with only one point of entry.
What was the Warsaw Ghetto like
More than 400,000 people lived there
Biggest ghetto
Over 70,000 died from startvation and disease
300,000 were taken to concentration camps and murdered
An uprising left 10,000 dead
What is a concentration camp?
Where people were held against their will. There was often an element of hard labour within this imprisonment
What is an extermination camp?
A place that minority groups or enemies of the state were sent for the purpose of being killed.
What were the Einsatzgruppen?
Paramilitary death squads responsible for killing people in concentration and extermination camps.
What was Auschwitz-Birkenau like?
Located in Poland near Krakow
It was a concentration/death camp
Many medical experiments took place here
Auschwitz was the concentration camp
Birkenau was the extermination camp
Over 1 million people died here
What types of resistance against the Holocaust were there?
Armed resistance
Rescuing Jews
Recording Nazi crimes
Preserving culture
Sustaining morale
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
When : 19th April 1943
What Happened:
- In 1942 most of the people had been deported to extermination camps
- Rumor said that the Nazis were coming to kill and deport the rest
- Resistors barricaded themselves and attacked the German soldiers
- They survived a month and in the end 7,000- 10,000 died
Impact:
- Although they didn’t fight the nazis off
- The impact was huge
- Inspired others to fight back
Sonderkommandos
Who are they - Jews forced to work for the Nazis
When: 7th Oct 1944
What happened:
- Sonderkommandos learned they were going to be killed to hide evidence
- Blew up a crematorium
- Killed 3 guards
- Allowed prisoners to escape; most were recaptured
Impact:
- It caused chaos
- Disrupted the Nazis and gave hope
How did the holocaust happen
There were many different reasons from the hatred of the Jews to fear for their own lives.
Children were given Race Lessons in which they were taught the inferiority of the Jewish race and therefore it was ingrained in many people.
