y9 history

Question 1

what was the holocaust

Answer 1

the systematic murder of Europe’s jews by the Nazis

Question 2

what is the holocaust known as in jewish culture

Answer 2

shoah

Question 3

what does shoah mean

Answer 3

catastrophe

Question 4

Other than jews, who else did the nazis murder

Answer 4

political opponents, roma and sinti travellers, homosexuals and disabled people

Question 5

what other ways were prisoners killed in the camps

Answer 5

due to neglect, starvation or disease

Question 6

where were most of the murders taken place

Answer 6

concentration camps

Question 7

give 2 examples of concentration camps

Answer 7

auschwitz
birkenau

Question 8

when and where was the first concentration camp opened

Answer 8

dachau in 1933

Question 9

what was the setimated amount of people that were murdered by the nazis in the 2nd world war

Answer 9

11 million

Question 10

how many jews were killed by the nazis

Answer 10

6 million

Question 11

what date did the nazis begin to actively persecute the jews of germany

Answer 11

january 1933

Question 12

what were the laws called that allowed nazis to persecute jews in germany

Answer 12

discriminatory laws

Question 13

what was the first of the discriminatory laws

Answer 13

banning jewish people from having a job

Question 14

what does civil service mean

Answer 14

jews were forbidden from working for the government

Question 15

what did german law restrict in april 1933

Answer 15

restricted the number of jewish students at german schools and universities

Question 16

what date did german law restrict jews from going to school

Answer 16

april 1933

Question 17

when were the nuremberg laws introduced

Answer 17

1935

Question 18

what were the nuremberg laws

Answer 18

excluded german jews from reich citizenship and banned them from marrying or havin sexual relations with people of german/german related blood

Question 19

what year were jews banned from all public schools and universities

Answer 19

1938

Question 20

as well as schools and universities, what other places were jews banned from in 1938

Answer 20

cinemas, theatres and sports facilities

Question 21

where were jewish people forced to move to from 1939 onwards

Answer 21

ghettos

Question 22

what were ghettos

Answer 22

walled off areas of the cities

Question 23

what year were jewish people forced to move into ghettos

Answer 23

1939

Question 24

what were conditions described as in ghettoes

Answer 24

appalling

Question 25

what was housing like in ghettoes

Answer 25

overcrowded

Question 26

what did germans limit in ghettoes and why did many people die

Answer 26

limited food supplies so the population starved to death

Question 27

what did many houses lack in the ghettoes

Answer 27

basic running water

Question 28

what did the einsatzgruppen do

Answer 28

they were ss groups who would carry out mass shootings of groups of jews that didnt live in the ghettoes

Question 29

what did the einsatzgruppen do with jewish bodies after killing them

Answer 29

bury the bodies in mass graves

Question 30

what was the wansee conference

Answer 30

when the s.s agreed on their plan to murder the jews of europe

Question 31

when was the wansee conference

Answer 31

1941

Question 32

what did nazis plan to use to murder large groups of jews at a time

Answer 32

poisonous gas

Question 33

where were jewish people transported to from the ghettoes

Answer 33

concentration camps

Question 34

what was life in the camp described as

Answer 34

brutal

Question 35

what were prisoners in concentration camps fed

Answer 35

often only fed a slice of bread and some watery soup for the day

Question 36

where did people in the concentration camps live

Answer 36

filthy barrack huts with hundreds of others

Question 37

give an example of the diseases that were spread in the concentration camps

Answer 37

typhus

Question 38

why was typhus spread in the concentration camps

Answer 38

because of the dirty conditions

Question 39

what did the s.s guards take pleasure in

Answer 39

torturing the inmates

Question 40

how did the s.s guards torture the inmates

Answer 40

shooting prisoners without warning or reason, beating prisoners to death, hanging prisoners in front of inmates to terrorise the victims

Question 41

what were prisoners often forced to stand outside for

Answer 41

roll call to count them

Question 42

why did roll call usually take hours

Answer 42

guards would deliberately make mistakes so they would have to start again

Question 43

why did many people die during roll call

Answer 43

only wore thin camp uniforms while the temperature was often below freezing so died from the cold

Question 44

what were some of the jobs that prisoners had to carry out in concentration camps

Answer 44

producing aircraft parts for the german airforce, working in factories or construction work

Question 45

what was one of the factories that prisoners had to work in

Answer 45

the synthetic rubber factory in monowitz

Question 46

what would happen to prisoners that became unproductive during work

Answer 46

would be gassed or shot

Question 47

what did guards do leading up to the end of ww2

Answer 47

remove large numbers of prisoners from camps

Question 48

what was heartbreaking about the weeks leading up to the end of the second world war

Answer 48

thousand of jews died through exhaustion or being shot during the marches

Question 49

what were the marches called that killed thousands of jews

Answer 49

death marches