HOLOCAUST SCAVENGER HUNT



HOLOCAUST SCAVENGER HUNT

SECTION 1: THE NAZI PARTY

1. What were the effects of WWI on Germany?

2. What was the German’s Worker Party? What was its nickname?

3. What was the purpose of the Beer Hall Putsch? How did it affect Hitler?

4. What is Mein Kampf? How was it used?

5. How did anti-semitism and the Great Depression help the Nazi party come to power?



SECTION 2: NAZIFICATION

1. How did Germany violate the 1919 Treaty of Versailles?

2. What was Lebensraum?

3. What caused WWII to begin in l939?

4. What was the original use for the Dachau concentration camp?

5. How did the Nuremberg Laws of l935 affect the Jewish people in Germany?

6. Explain who you think was an Aryan, and who do you think was a Non-Aryan.

7. In l936, the Olympics were held in Berlin. Ironically, an American, who was African American, was the hero of the Olympics. What was this man’s name, and explain in your own words what you think Hitler said about this unforeseen event.

8. In l938, what was the Anschluss? Did it make Germany stronger or weaker, and why?

9. On November 9, l938, who was the Propaganda Prime Minister who initiated Kristallnacht? Explain what happened.

10. What was the Blitzkrieg?



SECTION 3: GHETTOS

1. In 1939, what did Hitler intend to do with all of the Polish people that Germany had conquered?

2. How did the Germans explain that the Jews needed to be isolated?

3. Jews that were 10 years old and older were instructed to wear a yellow Star of David. Why did the Germans want to know where all of the Jews were?

4. Jews were transported to ghettos. Explain what a ghetto was.

5. What were the living conditions like in the ghettos?

6. Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto in Czechoslovakia was a "model" ghetto. Why would the Nazis care to have the world see this place?

7. What was the "Final Solution?"



SECTION 4: CONCENTRATION CAMPS

1. What was the purpose for building concentration camps?

2. Who was imprisoned and murdered there?

3. How many concentration camps were established in Poland?

4. Describe the living conditions in a concentration camp.

5. Why do you think Germany built so many camps in Poland?

6. In 1942, what was the Wannsee Conference?

7. How many Jewish victims were murdered in the camps?

8. How many other victims were also murdered in the camps?

9. Why did the Nazis force inmates to go on death marches in l945?



SECTION 5: RESISTANCE

1. What forms of resistance was there?

2. Explain guerilla warfare.

3. Why was the performance of Jewish rituals considered a form of resistance?

4. In what other ways did the Jewish people defy the Nazi authorities?

5. Who were the partisans?

6. Although they were few in number, why were they so effective in disrupting the Nazi activities?

7. In l943, the Warsaw Ghetto had a rebellion. Describe this revolt, and the outcome.

8. Resistance against the Nazis continued to the end of the war. Describe 2 other rebellions.



SECTION 6: LIBERATION

1. Which armies (countries) liberated the camps?

2. Who was General Dwight D. Eisenhower?

3. Why did he insist on taking pictures of the camps? Why do you think he made the local villagers and town people go through the camps and see the atrocities?



4. Write about 2 examples of rescuers or rescue attempts by individuals or organizations.





 

SECTION 7: AFTERMATH

1. Where did most of the survivors go after they were liberated?

2. What were the conditions like?

3. Where did they want to go, and why couldn't they go there?



4. How many high ranking Nazi official were brought to trial at Nuremberg?

5. Write about 2 of them. Summarize what their role was in the Nazi party, and their punishment was.

 

6. 1948- What happened in Palestine?

7. How did this affect the Jewish refugees still living in European displaced persons camps?

8. Who is Simon Wiesenthal?

9. Which notorious Nazi did he track down? Where and when did this happen?

10. Describe the trial and why you think it was important for the world to be aware of this.



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