Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

What is anti-semitism

• Discrimination against Christians

• Discrimination against Jews

• Allowing Jews into your home

• The movement of giving the Jews a homeland

Which of the following best describes the “final solution?” 

• The implementation of the Balfour Declaration.
• The Nazi desire for complete destruction of the Jews.
• The conscription of German males into the military.
• The Jewish desire for a homeland within Germany.

By the end of the Holocaust, over __________ Jews had been killed? 

• 2 Million
• 4 Million
• 6 Million
• 8 Million

Which term means prejudice against or hatred of Jews?

• Semitism
• Anti-semitism
• Genocide
• Holocaust

A separate area of a city, often an already ethnic neighborhood, which the Germans would block off for the purpose of separating Jews from the rest of the city and impose harsh conditions.  

• Quarter
• Slum
• Ghetto
• Concentration Camp

Blond hair and blue eyes; Hitler's perfect race

• Anti-Semitism

• Einsatzgruppen

• Furher

• Aryan Race

A place where prisoners were taken to either work or be gassed.

• death camp

• forced-labor camp

• concentration camp

• Final Solution

In 1935, the ____ denied Jews German citizenship, segregated Jews from society and also established degrees of “Jewish-ness” based on family ancestry.

• The Enabling Act
• The Nuremberg Laws
• The Reich Fire Decree
• The Wannsee Conference Laws

This term was first used in the late 1950’s to describe the systematic torture and murder of Europe’s Jews and others considered inferior to the Aryan race. This was the systematic, state-sponsored killing of 11 million innocent people.

• genocide

• Holocaust

• anti-semitism

• Kristallnacht

______,  a pogrom that occurred on November 9-10, 1938 when Germans were urged to burn synagogues, loot businesses and homes of Jews, and even torture or kill Jews.

• Judenrat
• Kristallnacht
• Nuremberg
• Wannsee