QUESTIONS
1. When speaking about the "Holocaust,"
what time period are we
referring
to?
2. How many Jews were murdered
during the Holocaust?
3. How many non-Jewish civilians
were murdered during World War II?
4. Which Jewish communities suffered
losses during the Holocaust?
5. What is a death camp? How
many were there? Where were they
located?
6. What does the term "Final
Solution" mean and what is its origin?
9. When did the "Final Solution"
actually begin?
10. How did the Germans define
who was Jewish?
11. What were the first measures
taken by the Nazis against the Jews?
12. When was the first concentration
camp established and who were
the first inmates?
13. Which groups of people in
Germany were considered enemies of
the state by the Nazis and were, therefore, persecute
14. Why were the Jews singled
out for extermination?
15. What did people in Germany
know about the persecution of Jews
and other enemies of Nazism?
16. Did the Allies and the people
in the Free World know about the
events going on in Europe?
17. Did the Jews in Europe realize
what was going to happen to them?
18. How many Jews were able to
escape from Europe prior to the
Holocaust?
19. Why were so few refugees
able to flee Europe prior to the outbreak
of World War II?
20. What was Hitler's ultimate
goal in launching World War II?
21. Did the Jews try to fight
against the Nazis? To what extent were
such efforts successful
22. What were the Nuremberg trials?
23. How did the world respond
to the Holocaust?
24. When was World War I? Why
is World War I a significant event?
25. What was the Weimer Republic?
26. What was the Nazi party?
What did they promise? What did they demand?
27. Who was Hitler?
27. How did Hitler become Chancellor
of Germany?
28. What is anti-semitism?
29. How was World War I and World
War II different?
30. What was the Polish Jewry
and the Warsaw Ghetto?
31. How did Hitler die?
32.Explain the "End of the War."
33. How can you benefit from
studying the Holocaust?
34.Why is it important to have
freedom of religion and protect the rights of minorities?
35. Imagine that you know people
who are being discriminated against in your neighborhood or at your school,
because of their color, religion or belief. What could you do?