ENGLISH 10 STUDY GUIDE: The Holocaust

Answers these questions the absolutely best you can. 

You and your partner can use the book Night, and the two handouts I gave you. One is the history of the Holocaust and the other has maps and a glossary.

Write your answers on loose-leaf paper and write your names in the upper left-hand corner.

1. What is the time period of the Holocaust? The “Holocaust” refers to the period from Jan. 30, 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945 (V-E Day) 2. How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust? Six million is the round figure accepted by most authorities 3. What is a death camp? A death camp is a concentration camp with special apparatus especially designed for systematic murder. 4. How many were there? Six 5. Where were they located? Poland 6. What does the term “Final Solution” mean? This term refers to Germany’s plan to murder all the Jews of Europe. 7. How did the Germans define anyone who was Jewish? Anyone with one Jewish grandparent, or anyone married to a Jew 8. When was the first concentration camp established? Dachau was the first concentration camp, opened on March 22, 1933 9. Who else, besides the Jews, did the Germans imprison? List as many as you can! Communists, social democrats, trade unionists, habitual criminals, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anti-socials, Gypsies, mentally-handicapped 10. Which country had the highest number of deaths among the Jewish population? Poland ENGLISH 10 STUDY GUIDE: The Holocaust

11. Which country had the second highest number? Russia 12. What was the Wannsee Conference? The Wancheese Conference happened on Jan. 20, 1942. German leaders gathered “to coordinate logistics for carrying out ‘the final solution’” 13. The systematic murder of Jews did not begin until June 1941. Prior to this date, what were some of the methods used by the Germans to discriminate against the Jews? Lost civil jobs, not allowed to attend public schools, forced to live in ghettoes, could not practice medicine or law 14. What was the Kristallnacht? A planned attack on synagogues and Jewish businesses – Nov. 1938 15. When did the death marches begin and why? As Allied forces advanced into eastern and western Germany, the SS decided to evacuate the camps. These marches began in late 1944 and continued into the spring of 1945

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16. The Allies and many people in the Free World knew about the events in Germany and its occupation from as early as 1935. TRUE 17. Once the Allies entered German and occupied territory, their primary concern was the welfare of the prisoners in the concentration camps. FALSE 18. During WWII, many Jews seeking to enter the US were allowed to due to the US’s open immigration policy. FALSE 19. Many European Jews viewed Germans as liberal and civilized after German troops liberated the Jews from the Czar in WWI. TRUE 20. During the entirety of WWII, no German individual or organization attempted a unified resistance against the German government. FALSE ENGLISH 10 STUDY GUIDE: The Holocaust

BONUS: What was Hitler’s ultimate goal in launching WWII? Hitler’s goal in launching WWII was the establishment of an Aryan empire from Germany to the Urals (in Russia). He considered this the natural territory of the German people.