Year 9 Holocaust

Question 1

What is the definition of persecution?

Answer 1

Singled out for mistreatment over a period of time.

Question 2

What is the definition of anti-Semitism?

Answer 2

The persecution and hatred of Jewish people.

Question 3

When did the Holocaust take place?

Answer 3

During the Second World War.

Question 4

What were Germans encouraged to believe?

Answer 4

That Aryans were the master race, and were racially pure.

Question 5

What was the Holocaust?

Answer 5

Nazi Germany’s attempt to murder groups of people they considered to be undesirable. These included Jews, homosexuals, the disabled, gypsies, Jehovahs witnesses.

Question 6

What was the Nazi view of Jewish people?

Answer 6

They were an alien race and cannot be trusted.

Question 7

What ?reasons? were given for persecuting Jewish people?

Answer 7

Religion, Outsiders, Racial Theory, Scapegoats and Economic.

Question 8

What is a ghetto?

Answer 8

Part of the city were Jews were forced to live

Question 9

How unique were Nazi beliefs?

Answer 9

They were not unique in their beliefs but they were in their actions. Their policies were extremely anti-Semitic.

Question 10

How many Jewish victims of the Holocaust were there?

Answer 10

During the Holocaust, 6 million Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis. That is 66% of all the Jewish people that were living in Europe at the start of WWII.

Question 11

Who were the Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 11

Killing squads from the SS and police battalions who followed the invasion of the USSR in 1941.

Question 12

Who was Reinhard Heydrich?

Answer 12

Nazi SS general who personally planned the sites for the Nazi Death camps and transport to them. He was assassinated by the SOE in 1942.

Question 13

What were Belzec, Treblinka and Auschwitz?

Answer 13

Belzec, Treblinka and Auschwitz were extermination/death camps

Question 14

What groups were murdered during the Holocaust

Answer 14

Jews, homosexuals, the disabled, gypsies, Jehovahs witnesses.

Question 15

How were Jews persecuted throughout history?

Answer 15

In Medieval Europe, a myth grew that Jews were torturing and murdering Christians, especially children. They were blamed for diseases such as the black death. They were forced to live in ghettos or expelled from countries.

Question 16

What were Jews forced to wear to identify themselves in Nazi Germany?

Answer 16

Jews were forced to sew a yellow star onto their clothes so that they could be easily identified.

Question 17

What rights did the Nuremberg Laws take away from German Jews in 1935?

Answer 17

Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens. Jews cannot marry non-Jews. Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.

Question 18

What did some Jewish fighters do in Poland in resistance?

Answer 18

Jewish fighters in an area of Poland rescued Jews from the ghettos and set up communities in the forests. 1,000 of them survived the war.

Question 19

What did some Jewish civilians do in resistance?

Answer 19

They fought in armed resistance groups in over 100 ghettos in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union.

Question 20

What happened in the Vilna ghetto?

Answer 20

Jewish resistance groups planned to wait until the Germans were going to get rid of the ghetto, then start an armed uprising. They made a mistake and launched an armed rebellion before the ghetto was going to be destroyed. In response, the Germans cleared the ghetto and murdered most of the people living there.

Question 21

What made the rescue of Jews more likely to succeed?

Answer 21

If people had outside support. Example: Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish man who worked to resume Jews. Between July and December 1944, he issued protective passports and housed Jews, saving tens of thousands of people from death.

Question 22

What is a genocide?

Answer 22

Committing certain acts with the intent to destroy, in whole, or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.

Question 23

How does Steven Katz describe the Holocaust?

Answer 23

The Holocaust is the only case of genocide in human History?.

Question 24

In what ways could the Holocaust be seen as a unique event in history?

Answer 24

Amount of people killed; how widespread; people involved; scale of atrocities committed.

Question 25

What are some other examples of genocides?

Answer 25

15,000,000 Native Americans by Europeans; 1,500,000 Bengalis by Pakistanis (1971); 972,000 Armenians by Turks (1915); 937,000 Tutsi by Hutu in Rwanda (1994); 240,000 Aboriginal Australians (1788-1920); 75,000 Herero and Nama tribes in Namibia (1904-1907). 31 Notable genocides are mentioned in Matthew White’s ‘Atrocities: 100 deadliest episodes in human history’

Question 26

How many victims of the Holocaust were there?

Answer 26

11 million

Question 27

What was the Warsaw Ghetto uprising?

Answer 27

Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rose in armed revolt. Jewish groups attacked German tanks. Although the Germans were shocked by the strength of resistance, they were able to end the major fighting within a few days. However, it took German forces a month to completely empty the ghetto and deport nearly all the remaining people to camps.

Question 28

What was the ‘Final Solution’?

Answer 28

Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe through genocide.

Question 29

When was the word genocide first used and when did it become a crime?

Answer 29

First used in 1944 and became a crime in 1946 after the Holocaust