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Mrs. Benjamin CP Freshman Language Arts

The Holocaust: A Webquest
All of the questions below either start at the Table of Contents page of the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum's education outreach page or from the topics to study page. You can also navigate the site by clicking the links in the header at the top of the web page or by following the links at the bottom of the web page. Type or paste your answers right on this form, and then put it in my drop box when you’re done.

The Nazi Terror Begins 1) The USHMM website states that tens of thousands of young, unemployed German men were "lured by the wages, a feeling of comradeship, and the striking uniforms," to join which organization within the Nazi Party? Give both the English and German terms.
____Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilungen).________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________ Nazi Racism 2) What was Hitler's term for the "master race?" Describe this type of person.
__(Aryan)_Blonde, Blue eyed, tall people_______________________________________
___________________________________________________________________ 3) Other than Jews, what types of German citizens were victims of Nazi racial ideology?
____Gays, _Gypsies, African-German children, Handicapped, mentally ill, deaf & blindMurder of the Disabled4)What is the difference between euthanasia and the word when used in the Nazi context?The word mean painless death but to the Nazi’s it meant clandestine murder program5) On the “Murder of the Disabled” page, click on the “View Photographs” link and then chooseone of the photographs. Describe the photograph, and then describe your reaction to the photograph.
Anti-Semitism 6) Define anti-Semitism. How far does it go back?
______________The hatred jew____________________________________________________
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7) What does the term pogrom mean?_______________________attack on jew neighborhoods____________________________________________
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The Nuremberg Laws

8) How did the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 classify people in Germany as Jewish (by what standard did the government judge if a person was Jewish)?
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__________________________________________________________________ 9) On the “Nuremberg Laws” page, click on the “View Personal Histories” link and then chooseOne of the Personal Histories. Describe the person you chose, and then describe your reaction to that person’s story.__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________ The Night of Broken Glass 10) Tell what happened on the night of November 9, 1938. What is the German name for this event? What caused the violence?
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Map: Jewish Emigration from Germany: 1933 11) Looking at the map, which country accepted the most Jews during this period?
How many Jews escaped to Palestine? To Shanghai?
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The Final Solution 12) What was the goal of the "final solution?" What is the definition of the term
"genocide?" ________to kill all the jews, the extermination of a race Ghettos 13) In what Polish city was the largest of the Jewish "residential quarters" found? ___________Warsaw_______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________ The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 14) Describe the events of April 19, 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto. Be sure to state what happened to the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto?
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__________________________________________________________________ Auschwitz 15) How many people died at Auschwitz? What percentage of them was Jewish?
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__________________________________________________________________ Map: Extermination Centers in Occupied Poland

16) Use the map to list the major killing centers and extermination camps in Poland
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__________________________________________________________________ Liberation

17) Why did about half of the concentration camp inmates die within a few weeks of liberation? _________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________ The Nuremberg Trials18) How many Nazi leaders were put on trial in Nuremberg? How many were sentenced to death? __________________________________________________________
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