The Holocaust

Question 1

What is the Holocaust?

Answer 1

The Holocaust (1933-1945) was a systematic form of genocide, under Nazi authority, of people considered undesirable such as gypsies, roma, black people, disabled people, homosexuals, Jehovah witnesses and famously Jews.

Question 2

By the end of the Holocaust, how many Jews had been killed?

Answer 2

6 million Jews had died

Question 3

Name 3 concentration camps

Answer 3

Dachau, Auschwitz and Ravensbruck

Question 4

Define Final Solution

Answer 4

The final solution was a Nazi systematic plan to wipe out all Jews across Europe through mass murder.

Question 5

When did the Holocaust start and finish?

Answer 5

1933-1945

Question 6

What kind of experiments did the Nazi’s do?

Answer 6

Freezing experiments, experiments for treating injuries and illnesses, and experiments proving that Nazi’s were the superior race.

Question 7

How many people lived after Mengele experimented on them?

Answer 7

200 people

Question 8

Why were gas chambers disguised as shower rooms?

Answer 8

So prisoners would go in willingly

Question 9

What is anti-Semitism?

Answer 9

Hatred of Jews

Question 10

Who were the SS (Schutzstaffel) and what did they do?

Answer 10

A paramilitary organisation under the Nazi Party. They enforced forced labour, shootings, and punishments in concentration camps.

Question 10

When was Adolf Hitler born?

Answer 10

April 20, 1889 in Austria

Question 11

What symbol was mandatory to be worn by Jews?

Answer 11

Star of David

Question 11

What kind of gas were used at Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau?

Answer 11

Zyklon-B gas

Question 12

What is Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 12

The special killing groups developed by Hitler, to kill large groups of people thought to be undesirable.

Question 13

What were the conditions in ghettos?

Answer 13

Overcrowded, lack of water and food and forced labour.

Question 14

What does the term annihilation mean?

Answer 14

In this context, it refers to the mass extermination of Jews and other undesired groups?

Question 15

What is operation T4?

Answer 15

Operation T4 was the Nazi plan to exterminate those with disabilities, mental disabilities and serious health problems. Initiated in the early 1930s , this operation killed approximately 70 000 individuals through gas chambers, lethal injections and starvation.

Question 16

Who were the Kappos?

Answer 16

Kapos were prisoners in Nazi concentration camps whom the SS forced to oversee other inmates. They received better clothing, food and housing then the other prisoners.

Question 17

Who were the Zonderkommandos and what did they do?

Answer 17

The Sonderkommandos were Jewish inmates forced to perform their duties in concentration camps. Some of their duties were shaving hair, searching the prisoner’s bodies for hidden possessions (gold teeth), carry burning bodies in the ovens and dispose ashes (to hide evidence).

Question 18

Why were synagogues burnt?

Answer 18

Because they were are place of worship for Jews.

Question 19

What were the conditions in the concentration camps?

Answer 19

Similar to ghettos extermination camps, overcrowded, lack of food and water, forced labour, medical experiments, lack of healthcare, lack of hygiene, sicknesses like typhoid, and violence.

Question 20

What is the meaning of communism?

Answer 20

Social system based on common ownership

Question 21

What is the meaning fascism?

Answer 21

Government system led by a supreme dictator. Centralised control over all aspects of life

Question 22

What is the meaning of liberation?

Answer 22

Freeing of concentration camps

Question 23

what is the meaning of mischling?

Answer 23

Mixed blood -both Aryan and Jewish ancestry

Question 24

What is propaganda?

Answer 24

Information and ideas intentionally used to spread ideas

Question 25

What is usury?

Answer 25

illegal/immoral money lending at very high rates of interest

Question 26

What did the Nazis do with dead bodies?

Answer 26

Bodies were lotted of gold and thrown into large mass graves

Question 27

How long did the prisoners usually have to work?

Answer 27

11 hours

Question 28

What kind of method of gassing took place at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka?

Answer 28

Exhaust fume gassing