Holocaust

The Holocaust is recognized as the

• a. end of the war in Europe in 1945.

• b. persecution of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War I.

• c. murder of millions of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II.

• d. period of violence after World War II.

Who did the Nazi Party target?

• a. Roma people only

• b. Jewish people only

• c. Roma and Catholic people only

• d. Jewish, Roma and disabled people, among other groups

Which of the following did the Nazi Party believe about race?

• a. Germans are elite and belong to the master Aryan race.

• b. Race is a social construct that is not based in biology.

• c. Only Jewish people are considered non-Aryan.

• d. Only Italians belong to the master Aryan race.

What kind of laws did Adolf Hitler implement as head of state in Germany?

• a. laws that reversed the Treaty of Versailles

• b. anti-Semitic laws that persecuted Jewish people

• c. laws that made violence against non-Aryans illegal

• d. laws that punished the United States for World War I

Under the Nazi regime, many Jewish people

• a. rebuilt synagogues.

• b. opened new businesses.

• c. were forced to live in ghettos.

• d. found safety by fleeing to Poland.

On the Night of Broken Glass, Nazis

• a. converted the homes of Jewish people into labor camps.

• b. began the mass murder of Jewish people in death camps.

• c. confiscated the belongings of Jewish prisoners and sold them.

• d. attacked Jewish people, burned synagogues and pillaged businesses.

In concentration camps, prisoners were

• a. trained as soldiers and forced to fight for Germany in the war.

• b. tattooed with ID numbers, and then sent home.

• c. experimented on and forced to do hard labor.

• d. given good medical care.

Which line from the song best speaks to the role that German citizens played in the events of the Holocaust?

• a. “Persecuting the disabled and Roma, too...”

• b. “They tattooed ID numbers on every captive.”

• c. “...would you even have hope?”

• d. “It happened ’cause good people didn’t stand up.”

Remembering the events of the Holocaust helps us

• a. learn how to stop a genocide.

• b. honor the legacy of the victims.

• c. work to ensure that such events never happen again.

• d. all of the answer choices are correct.

Place the following events in sequence: A) Anti-Semitism begins in Europe; B) Six million Jews are murdered; C) Hitler comes to power

• a. A, C, B

• b. A, B, C

• c. C, A, B

• d. B, A, C