Directions- Answer the following questions using research ...



Holocaust Web-Quest

Directions- Answer the following questions using research obtained at the holocaust web-Site provided.

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Part 1- Anti-Semitis

1. Where does the word anti-Semitism come from?

2. The word anti-Semitism denotes a hatred of Jews. What else does it denote a hatred of?

3. What did the Nuremberg laws say?

4. What happened on November 9,1938?

5. What was this night called?

6. Click on the word Pogroms in this section to answer questions in Part 2

Part 2- Pogroms- A History of violence toward Jews

1. Where did the term Pogrom originate?

2. Why were these originally carried out?

3. How did Hitler change the Pogroms?

4. What was the significance of Kristallnacht?

5. For answers to Part 3 go back and click on Jewish Resistance under 1939-1945

Part 3- Jewish Resistance

1. What was the most successful form of Jewish resistance?

2. What event was known as the largest uprising?

3. What set off this event?

4. Did uprisings occur at the extermination camps? If so which ones?

5. Click on the following link to find answer to Part 4



Part 4- The Camp System

1. Who was originally put in these camps?

2. Why were they put there?

3. What was done to prisoners in these camps?

4. Why were gas chambers created?

5. How many Jews were killed in the concentration camps in Poland alone?

Part 5- The Final Solution

1. What was the “Final Solution”?

2. What was the code name for the plan?

3. What three camps were created for this plan?

4. How many Jews were killed in Europe?

Part 6- Einsatzgruppen (Look under 1939-1945)

1. What were Hitler’s mobile killing units called?

2. What was the Einsatzgruppen?

3. Who did they kill?

4. Where did most of their killings take place?

Part 7- War Crimes Trials (Look under Post War 1945)

1. What did the Moscow Declaration say?

2. What was the IMT?

3. Where did IMT proceedings take place?

4. What were people put on trial for?

5. What were the results?

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