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Holocaust
Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What year did the Holocaust begin and end? | 1933 - 1945 |
| Who led the Holocaust? | Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's. |
| Why did Hitler lead the Holocaust? | Because he wanted a “perfect, super, German Aryan race” |
| How many Jews were killed? | 6 million. |
| How many people were killed in total? | Around 12 million. |
| Who helped carry out the Holocaust? | SS and the Gestapo. |
| What's the Gestapo? | Hitler's secret police force. |
| What's Anti-semitism? | Prejudice against Jews. |
| What's Genocide? | The killing of an entire group of people. |
| What are some examples of genocide? | Armenia, Bosnia, Rwanda, & Sudan. |
| What did Hitler and the Nazi's call the genocide/extermination of all the Jews in Europe. | "Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” |
| What's Atrocities? | Horrific crimes against humanity. |
| What are Concentration camps? | Prison, slave labor, and death camps. |
| Auschwitz | A death camp in Poland. |
| Dachau | A prison/ slave labor camp in Germany. |
| What were other Nazi occupied countries? | Austria and Czechoslovakia. |
| What concentration camps did these countries have? | Treblinka, Sobibor, and Bergen-Belsen. |
| What were four ways people helped Jews during the Holocaust? | They hide them, supplied them with food, provided them with fake identification, and smuggled them out of the country. |
| What's a Refugee? | A person who leaves his or her home to find shelter or safety elsewhere. |
| Did British-controlled Palestine let Jews in? | British-controlled Palestine did not let Jews in. |
| How many Jews did the U.S let in per year? | 27,000 |
| Why did the U.S only let 27,000 Jews in per year? | They didn't want job competition and there was some anti-semitism in the US. |
| Oskar Schindler | A Nazi who protected and saved 1,200 Jews on his “list,” claiming they were essential factory workers. |
| Righteous Gentiles | Non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust by risking their own lives. |
| Synagogue | A place of worship for followers of Judaism. |
| “Kristallnacht” | “Night of the broken glass,” when German synagogues, homes, and stores were broken into, looted, destroyed, and the innocent Jews were rounded up and killed or sent to concentration camps. |
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