the holocaust

Question 1

anti-semitism

Answer 1

hostility/prejudice towards Jews

Question 2

Aryan race

Answer 2

Hitler’s ideal German race

Question 3

boycotting

Answer 3

refusing to go or to support something as a form of punishment

Question 4

persecution

Answer 4

hostility towards and the ill-treatment of a certain group

Question 5

when did Hitler become chancellor

Answer 5

1933- turning point

Question 6

what where the Nuremberg Laws

Answer 6

2 laws passed in Nazi Germany in 1935 that provided the legal framework for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. Consisted of:
- The Law for the protection of German Blood and Honour
- The Reich Citizenship Law

Question 7

Gestapo

Answer 7

Hitler’s secret police that would spy on people and cause fear

Question 9

Ghettos

Answer 9

a section of a city in which minority groups live

Question 10

Untermenschen

Answer 10

German word for ‘undesirables’- people who the Nazis didn’t see as part of the Aryan race

Question 11

What groups were persecuted by the Nazis

Answer 11

-Political (e.g communists)
-Criminals
-‘Asocial’ people (Roma, mentally ill, physically/mentally disabled, alcoholics, drug addicts, pacifists, prostitus)
-Homosexuals
-Jehovah’s Witnesses
-Emigrants

Question 12

Concentration camps

Answer 12

Area where prisoners would live in appalling conditions whilst doing forced labour

Question 13

Death camps

Answer 13

Camps, usually attatched to concentration camps, where prisoners would be killed on a mass scale

Question 14

Auschwitz

Answer 14

One of the largest and most famous concentration camps run by the Nazis (Poland)

Question 15

Adolf Hitler

Answer 15

Leader of the Nazi party and organiser of the persecution of the undesirables

Question 16

Zegota

Answer 16

Secret Polish group that rescued Jews from the Nazis

Question 17

What was the Holocaust

Answer 17

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies during World War II.