Transport

Question 1

What happened following the Wansee conference

Answer 1

The final solution was formalised and Nazis began the systematic deportation from ghettos to camps like austwitz, bergen belsen and Dachau

Question 2

What happened prior to transport?

Answer 2

Jews were forcibly removed from their homes with little to no notice and parked onto overcrowded cattle cars

Question 2

When was the Wansee conference

Answer 2

January 1942

Question 3

What was the conditions on the cattle cars?

Answer 3

There was a lack of food and water, ventilation and sanitation

Question 4

Were there any fatalities during transport?

Answer 4

Numerous people died enroute to camps due to the horrible conditions plus following the conditions and lack of sustenance in ghettos

Question 5

What did the transport process do?

Answer 5

It dehumanized victims as they were treated as cargo to be extermanisied, although in earlier stages they were unaware of their fate.

Question 6

Whilst other policies were focused on segregation and deposition….

Answer 6

the use of transportation and its conditions was a clear escalation from past measures.

Question 7

The forced emigration was a…

Answer 7

clear component of the nazi’s genocidal plan to eliminate the jewish population.

Question 8

Provide one piece of evidence and describe it and its affect

Answer 8

Hilde shermans testimony where she speaks of the lack of supplies on the journey. She describes passengers gathering snow during a stop, to later melt into drinking water as they were so dehydrated. This emphasises the desperation of the jews during the conditions of transport.