The HolocaustNote Guide

2. Who were the victims of the Holocaust?

1. _________________________________

2. _________________________________

3. _________________________________

4. _________________________________

5. _________________________________

6. _________________________________

7. _________________________________

3. Nuremberg Laws

These laws stripped the Jews of: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

1. What does Holocaust mean:

Holocaust literally can be defined as __________________.

__________________ is the Hebrew term for Holocaust.

4. Kristallnacht- “______________________________________” was a retaliatory night, during which the German authorities attacked Jewish businesses and invoked fear in the Jewish community. The results were 90+ deaths, tens of thousands of deaths, and the destructions of thousands of businesses.

5. The First Solution: What was Hitler’s first solution for the Jews? Why didn’t it work?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. The program that was put in place to exterminate the weak, the mentally handicapped, and children was known as_____________________________________________.

6. The Final Solution was determined at the________________________________. The solution concluded the use of _________________________________ to exterminate the Jewish population.

8. Ghettos were established to confine Jews to tightly packed areas of the cities. The _____________________ in Poland was the largest of the ghettos housing more than 380,000 people.

9. The Einsatgruppen reigned terror on the across Eastern Europe as the Nazi _________________________. Killing millions of Jews, gypsies and any opponent the Nazis. In many cases they would shoot their victims in front of mass graves.

10. The gas used to exterminate the prisoners at the Nazi death camps was called _______________. A highly poisonous cyanide that killed most victims in under 20 minutes.

11. The prisoners were separated into two groups once they arrived to the death camps.

1. ___________________________

2. ___________________________

The most infamous of the death camps was named:

__________________________________________

This camp alone accounted for the extermination of more than 1.6 million Jews.

12. Why & how did this event happen?

German sense of injury after WWI

Severe economic problems in Germany after WWI

Hitler’s complete and unquestioned control over Germany

Lack of tradition for a representative government

Fear of Hitler’s secret police

Long history of anti-Jewish prejudice and discrimination