Anne Frank Historical Context Vocab (Day 2)

The Jews were persecuted in which of the following ways? Select all that apply!

• antisemitic laws

• public identification and exclusion

• violence & physical displacement

• internment & forced labor

The Nurmeburg Laws accomplished which of the following?

• identified children with disabilities & sent them to facilities to be killed

• identified the number of Jews in Germany and specified their location

• excluded Jews from citizenship and prevented non-Jews from marrying Jews

• stripped Jews of their jobs and valuable possessions

Which of the following is the best definition for euthanize?

• behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something

• take aggressive action against a person without the use of a weapon

• to murder

• to kill painlessly, especially to relieve someone's suffering from an incurable condition or illness

The process, either official or unofficial, of people being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war, government policies, or other societal actions, requiring groups of people to find new places to live

• Placate

• Genocide

• Displacement

• Ghetto

The Jews being forced o move from their original homes into the ghettos is an example of which of the following? Select all that apply!

• Stereotyping

• Discrimination

• Eugenics

• Displacement

The Jews being forced to move from the ghettos to concentration camps or extermination camps is an example of displacement

• True

• False

The Nazis used color-coded patches to classify prisoners at the concentration and extermination camps

• True

• False

Define ghetto

• The process of people being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war, government policies, or other societal actions, requiring groups of people to find new places to live

• Enclosed areas of towns or cities used to contain, isolate, and control the Jews

• Camps where Jews were detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy

• Large apartments that were used to house, isolate, and control Jews

Which of the following best describes the living situation in the ghettos

• Luxurious

• Average/Normal

• Poor

Choose the best definition of genocide

• An internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to isolate a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

• An internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to discriminate against a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

• An internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

• An internationally recognized crime where acts are unintentionally committed that destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group