The Holocost Flashcards
Head of the Germany Security Police
Reinhardt Heydrich
An officer in the SS. Made sure evreything got done.
Adolf Eichmann
Angel of Death
Josef Mengele
Secretary of Otto Frank and was the most important link to the Frank to the outside
Miep Gies
Rescuer who was a german industrial owner and bought 11 hundred people back
Oskar Schindler
Swedish Diplomat rents several building declaring they are Swedish and hides Jews there and issues paperwork for them
Raoul Wallenberg
The Night Of Broken Glass–tens of thousands set fire to synagogues, breaking into peoples’ homes in retaliations of the death of the German Ambassador of Paris
Kristallnacht*
The decision to kill all jews
Final Solution*
The deliberate destruction of racial ethic group
genocide*
Meeting where the final solution took place
Wannsee
Where anna and Margot were transferred after Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
open ghetto easy to get in and out , they knew about death camps and hold off the German Army for almost a month by using weapons they had smuggle in
Warsaw
Restrictions placed on Jews by the Nuremberg laws (16)
- No jobs in government
- Not Citizens
- May not marry Germans
- May not practice medicine or law
- May not attend school
- May not own businesses
- No radios
- No telephones
- No cars
- No public transportation
- May not own bicycles
- No sporting events or theater
- No beaches or public parks
- Curfew
- Shopping curfew
- Wear star of David
Reasons why most Jews did not leave Germany when the Nazis came to power (2)
- It was their country
2. They didn’t it was going to last long
Difficult for Jews to come to the United States? Why?
Its was during the depression and couldn’t have any more people
