The Holocaust & Nazi persecution of Jews

Question 1

What happened to Jews between 1933 to 1939?

Answer 1

Jews in Germany faced terrible discrimination and prejudice and some were killed.

Question 2

What happened during WW2?

Answer 2

The mass killing of approximately six million Jews across Europe occurred.

Question 3

What did the Nazis want to do?

Answer 3

Totally destroy Jewish life in Europe and commit genocide against Jews

Question 4

What is genocide?

Answer 4

Any act committed with intent to destroy, or in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group

Question 5

What affect did the Holocaust have on the Jewish population in Europe by 1945?

Answer 5

Two-thirds of Jews who lived in Europe before the war were killed, including around 90% of all Jewish children

Question 6

Which other groups of people faced persecution during the Holocaust?

Answer 6

The Roma and Sinti people, who also faced terrible discrimination, brutal treatment, and imprisonment in Nazi camps.

Question 6

Which other groups of people faced persecution during the Holocaust?

Answer 6

The Roma and Sinti people, who also faced terrible discrimination, brutal treatment, and imprisonment in Nazi camps.

Question 7

How many Roma and Sinti people were killed during WW2?

Answer 7

Around 500,000

Question 8

What other groups were victims of the Nazis?

Answer 8

• Disabled people
• Homosexuals
• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Political opponents
• Polish and Soviet citizens
• Prisoners of War from the Soviet Union

Question 9

What happened in March 1933?

Answer 9

A boycott of Jewish shops organised for one day

Question 10

What happened in April 1933?

Answer 10

• A law removed all Jewish and political opponents from public service
• The number of Jewish school children reduced and controlled

Question 11

What happened in May 1935?

Answer 11

All Jews are removed from the army

Question 12

What was the first Anti-Semitic Nuremberg Law introduced in Sept. 1935?

Answer 12

The Reich citizen law - declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to German citizens (citizens of the ‘Reich’)

Question 13

What was the second Anti-Semitic Nuremberg Law introduced in Sept. 1935?

Answer 13

Law for the protection of German Blood and German Honour - forbade marriages and sexual relations between Jews and Germans. It was a law designed to protect German blood and punishment and breaking it was severe.

Question 14

What happened in March 1936?

Answer 14

Withdrawal of financial assistance for Jewish children

Question 15

What happened in October 1936?

Answer 15

Jewish teachers forbidden to teach non-Jewish children

Question 16

What happened in 1937?

Answer 16

Jewish people unable to gain a university degree

Question 17

What happened in 1938?

Answer 17

• Jewish doctors lose their license to work - soon all lawyers and professional jobs also lose their right to work
• All Jews must tell the government how much wealth they have and where it is
• All Jewish women must have ‘Sara’ and Jewish men ‘Israel’ in their name
• A red ‘Jew’ stamp must be in all Jewish passports
• All Jewish children banned from German schools
• Park benches and shops “for Aryans only”
• Forced to wear distinctive clothing such as a Star on their clothes