Unit 20 ( Holocaust)

Question 1

Reinhardt Heydrich

Answer 1

head of German security police; in charge of the “final Solution”; hosted the meeting in Wannsee

Question 2

Adolf Eichmann

Answer 2

Nazi officer given the task of carrying out the extermination of the Jews; Colonel in SS

Question 3

Josef Mengele

Answer 3

“the angel of death” camp doctor at Auschwitz

Question 4

Miep Gies

Answer 4

secretary at Otto’s business, often tutored the girls and was their source to the outside world

Question 5

.Oskar Schindler

Answer 5

famous rescuer/ industrialist who saved 1100 Jews

Question 6

Raoul Wallenberg

Answer 6

Swedish diplomat who saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews

Question 7

Kristallnacht

Answer 7

“Night of Broken Glass”

Question 8

Final Solution

Answer 8

the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.

Question 9

.Genocide

Answer 9

the entire killing of an ethnic group or group of people

Question 10

Wannsee

Answer 10

location where Heydrich held a conference tot all about what to do about the “Jewish Question”

Question 11

Bergen-Belson

Answer 11

camp where Anne, Margot, and Edith and Frank died after being captured by German soldiers in the secret annex

Question 12

Warsaw

Answer 12

location of the “open” large ghetto where the Jews rebelled and held the nazis with smuggled weapons

Question 13

Nuremberg Laws (16)

Answer 13

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Question 14

Reasons why most Jews did not leave Germany when the Nazis came to power (2)

Answer 14

Homeland

Believed it wouldn’t last

Question 15

Difficult for Jews to come to the US? Why?

Answer 15

yes, the quota system was cut so they could not escape to the US

Question 16

“products” made by the Nazis from the remains of victims

Answer 16

• gold teeth into jewelry
• fat from bodies as lube for machines and soap
• hair used as filters for submarines
• ashes as fertilizer
• skin made leather products

Question 17

Charges brought against Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg war crimes trials (4)

Answer 17

1. waging an aggressive war
2. war crimes
3. crimes against humanity
4. conspiracy

Question 18

Length of time spent by Anne Frank and her family in hiding

Answer 18

2 and a half years

Question 19

3 types of nazi camps, purpose, found in each, and experience of victims

Answer 19

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