AoW: Surviving the Holocaust

Many Holocaust survivors endured...

• constant terror.

• the loss of family members.

• years of semi-starvation.

• all of the above

Tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners died shortly after being liberated.

• True

• False

According to the article, after liberation from camps, survivors first had to ______________ before rebuilding their lives.

• register as refugees

• . prove they had been imprisoned

• physically recover

• all of these

Dr. Helmreich’s study compared Holocaust survivors who moved to America to __________________.

• American Jews who suffered persecution during the Holocaust

• American Jews who did not suffer persecution during the Holocaust

• . Jews living in unaffected countries in Europe

• . all of these

According to the study, Holocaust survivors became _________________ than others from their demographic.

• more successful

• more educated

• more likely to seek psychiatric treatment

• all of these

Holocaust survivors are more likely to _______________ than others in their demographic of the same age.

• decide not to have children

• stay married

• . get divorced

• marry multiple times

According to the article, ______________ Holocaust survivors went on to be convicted of crimes.

• 18% of

• almost no

• nearly half of

• 5% of

One trait that has been noted in survivors that allows them to shut off their emotions is ________________.

• survival mechanism

• brown hair

• psychic numbing

• posttraumatic stress

Why did the author include the profile of Major General Shachnow in the article?

• to explain to the reader how Shachnow escaped from the Nazis

• to show readers an actual example of a Holocaust survivor who became very successful

• to convince the reader that Holocaust survivors make great Army generals

• to prove to the reader that life after the Holocaust was possible

The author’s main purpose in this article is to…

• inform the reader about how concentration camp survivors are different from others

• describe the horrors endured by those who survived concentration camps.