Refugee - Context for Josef's Story

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Context for Josef's Story

The "Night of Broken Glass" | Holocaust Encyclopedia

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Multiple Choice

What is a synonym for Kristallnacht?

• Night of Disaster

• Night of Broken Glass

• Night of All Nights

• Night of Havoc

Multiple Choice

When did the Nazi Party officials set off a series of violent pogroms against Jews in Germany and Austria?

• November 9-10

  1938

• November 1-5

  1938

• November 9-10

  1983

• November 1-5

  1958

Multiple Choice

What does antisemitism mean?

• hostility or prejudice toward Germans

• hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people

• German people treating all others with prejudice

• war between Germans and Jewish people

Multiple Choice

Why didn't the police protect the Jewish people who were attacked?

• The police were overwhelmed and not able to help everyone.

• They believed the Jewish people knew how to protect themselves.

• Nazi leaders told the Jewish people they were not going to protect them.

• Nazi leaders told the police and fire brigades to ignore the attacks.

Multiple Choice

Who ordered the attack on the Jewish communities?

• Germany

• Italy

• Hitler and the

  Nazi Party

• Hitler and the 

  Kristallnacht

Multiple Choice

Why did the police arrest 30,000 German Jewish men?

• They had all committed crimes against Germany.

• They all were thought to have stolen food for their families.

• They were Jewish.

• They had plans to escape Germany.