Holocaust Webquest
ANTI-SEMITISM
What does “anti-Semitism” mean?
GENOCIDE
What is the definition for “Genocide”?
By whom and when was the word created?
THIRD REICH
What was Adolf Hitler's "racist belief"
WORLD WAR II
How did Germany start WWII?
What countries were the "Axis Powers"?
GHETTOES
What were the “Jewish ghettoes”?
How were these used by the Nazi?
FINAL SOLUTION
What was the objective of the "Final Solution"?
How many Jews died?
What percentage of European Jews had been killed by 1945?
HOLOCAUST
What the word "Holocaust" mean in Greek?
Persecution of Jews began with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's rise to power. What year was this?
KRISTALLNACHT
What does "Kristallnacht" mean in English?
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What did the Nazi do on Kristallnacht?
What does "Pogrom" mean?
What was the outcome for Jews from Kristallnacht?
AUSCHWITZ
Where was Auschwitz located?
What was the "Black Wall"?
How many were killed at Auschwitz?
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
What sorts of experiments did Dr. Mengele conduct in his concentration camp?
NAZI PROPAGANDA
What were the eight types of media used for propaganda against the Jews by the Nazis?
How were postcards from concentration camp prisoners used by the Nazi?
How was the Theresienstadt Ghetto used in Nazi propaganda?
RESCUE
Which country was most famous for help in rescuing Jews? What did they do?
List five famous men who were “rescuers”. Choose one (other than Oskar Schindler) and describe their actions.
Why did several of these rescuers falsify "protective passes" for Jews?
D-DAY
What countries landed their allied forces in Normandy France on June 6, 1944?
Why was this military victory so important for the Allied Forces?
CHILDREN: ID CARDS (then click on "Judith Beker" . Listen to her first interview about the ghetto).
How did the man "Motke" help Judith and others in the ghetto?