The Holocaust

Question 1

Who created the term Genocide and when?

Answer 1

Professor Raphael Lemkin in 1944

Question 2

The Herero and Nama Genocide

Answer 2

Early 1900’s, took place in Namibia

Question 3

Namibia was originally called

Answer 3

German South West Africa

Question 4

In ____________ Herero chief _____________ and Nama chief ______________

Answer 4

1904
Samuel Maharero
Hendrik Witbooi

Question 5

Leader of German military

Answer 5

General Lothar van Trotha

Question 6

In _______: _____ Herero & ____ Nama killed

Answer 6

1908
80%
50%

Question 7

The Cambodian Genocide

Answer 7

Between 1975 - 1979

Question 8

Communist group ___________________ led by _______________ took over the country

Answer 8

Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot

Question 9

1979

Answer 9

Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia overthrowing Khmer Rouge and ending their brutal regime

Question 10

Rwandan Genocide

Answer 10

In 1994

Question 11

800 000 people mostly Tutsi’s were brutally killed in just ________ days

Answer 11

100

Question 12

Rwanda was colonised by

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Belgians

Question 13

Rwanda inhabited by

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Hutu and Tutsi

Question 14

Belgians favoured the ____________ which led to _____________

Answer 14

Tutsi’s
Ethnic tension

Question 15

Nazi targeted groups and badge on clothes:

Answer 15

Jews: yellow star (star of David)
Gypsies: purple star
Homosexual: pink triangle

Question 16

Nazi’s regarded Jews and other targeted groups as

Answer 16

Untermensch or subhuman

Question 17

Other groups targeted for racial and other reasons

Answer 17

• Slavs
• Romani/Sinti/‘Gypsies”
• Baltic people
• People with disabilities
• Gay men
• Political and religious opponents

Question 18

Death camps were built to

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Ensure mass murders were carried out

Question 19

In Judaism the Holocaust is referred to as ___________ which means _______________ in __________

Answer 19

Shoah
“Calamity”
Hebrew

Question 20

Hitler believed that Germans were members of a superior group called “__________” race or ________

Answer 20

Aryan
Herrenvolk

Question 21

Jewish population of less than 1% of Germany

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Census of 1933

Question 22

Who influenced Hitler’s racial ideas

Answer 22

Austrian politicians:
- Georg Ritter Von Schönerer = German nationalist
- Karl Lueger = Vienna Mayor

Question 23

Public servants who were considered non-Aryan were dismissed from jobs

Answer 23

7 April 1933: banned from practicing the law and barred from being doctors or other professions

Question 24

Hitler released the Nuremburg Laws

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September 1935

Question 25

The Nuremburg law banned/restricted Jews from

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- Joining the army - Marrying Germans = Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour & existing ‘mixed’ marriages were dissolved - Stripped Jews of their citizenship, subjects not citizens = Reich Citizenship Law - No right to vote - Could not be appointed to any office state

Question 26

Jews were forced to sell their businesses

Answer 26

Towards the end of 1937

Question 27

Jews banned from owning certain things and going to school

Answer 27

1938

Question 28

Nazis claimed that Jews were a race defined by

Answer 28

Birth and by blood

Question 29

Nazis looked to

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Family genealogy to define race

Question 30

Segregation of Jews began in

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1935

Question 31

Isolation of Jews including actions such as

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- Signs outside towns - Passports stamped with large J - Jews forced to use obvious Jewish names - Jews prohibited from attending/using public facilities

Question 32

Jews were deported to Poland

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1938

Question 33

Kristillnacht

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9-10 November 1938

Question 34

Early November

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Von Ruth a German diplomat in Paris assassinated by a Jew

Question 35

Nazi used this as an

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Excuse to unleash a mob attack on Jews in Germany - pogram

Question 36

_______ Jewish synagogues set alight and over _______ Jewish shops destroyed

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119 800

Question 37

Reason for the name Kristallnacht

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Many shop windows were smashed

Question 38

Kristallnacht or

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Night of the broken glass

Question 39

1939

Answer 39

Hitler told the Reichstag that if war came it could mean ‘the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe’

Question 40

WW2 broke out on ________________ when _____________

Answer 40

September 1939 Nazi invaded Poland

Question 41

Nazi’s dominated most of Europe

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By 1941

Question 42

Ghettos originated from the name

Answer 42

Of the Jewish quarter in Venice, Italy established in 1516

Question 43

What did the Nazis do while the Ghettos took place?

Answer 43

Nazi leadership in Berlin deliberated upon options to realise the goal of removing the Jewish population

Question 44

Jews only got what food in the Ghettos?

Answer 44

Bowl of soup a day Loaf of bread a week

Question 45

Living conditions of the Ghettos

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- Very crowded - Sicknesses like tuberculosis and dysentery - Lack of medicine

Question 46

Established first Ghetto in

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Poland on October 1939

Question 47

Largest Ghetto in Poland

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Warsaw Ghetto

Question 48

If Jews were too old/sick they would be

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Shipped to labour camps where they would work until they died

Question 49

Nazi appointed __________________ or __________________ to __________________________________

Answer 49

Jewish councils Judenrete Administer daily life in the Ghettos

Question 50

Final Solution

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Beginning in late 1941

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Final Solution goal

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To murder all European Jews

Question 52

Forms of unarmed defiance

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- Organised attempts at escaping from the ghettos into nearby forests - Illegal smuggling of food, medicine, weapons/intelligence into the ghettos - Spiritual resistance

Question 53

Examples of Spiritual resistance

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- Cultural and educational activities - Secret religious meetings

Question 54

Secret underground library

Answer 54

Częstochowa, Poland serviced 1000 readers

Question 55

German authorities did not always forbid

Answer 55

Cultural activities

Question 56

Forms of cultural activities

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- Concerts - Lectures - Theatrical productions - Cabarets - Art contests

Question 57

At ____________ in _________, ________ Jewish ____________ groups existed

Answer 57

Warsaw 1940 600 Prayer

Question 58

Prayers helped with

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- Sustaining morale - Reaffirmed a cultural and religious identity - Supplied spiritual comfort

Question 59

Many _______________ Jews viewed prayers and religious as the _______________________________

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Orthodox /traditional Truest form of resistance

Question 60

Largest uprising of all

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Question 61

Between 1941 - 1943

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Underground resistance movements developed in approx. 100 ghettos

Question 62

Underground resistance movements happened especially in

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- Poland - Lithuania - Belorussia - Ukraine

Question 63

First years of persecution

Answer 63

1933, Hitler gave the first order to boycott all Jewish shops and businesses (SA soldiers protested in the streets)

Question 64

Kristallnacht was a

Answer 64

Turning point in Germany