Quiz on Holocaust Notes

Himmler sent out these types of organized units to shoot over 1 million Jews.

• brigades

• regiments

• firing squadrons

• battalions

During the Prelude to the Final Solution, half of the Jews from which country emigrated to avoid persecution?

• Italy

• Poland

• Germany

• Austria

• Norway

Jews were dehumanized in all of the following ways except:

• transported in cattle cars

• brainwashed with anti-sematic propaganda.

• feed around 1,000 calories a day

• isolated in Ghettos

Why did Himmler decide that a Final Solution was necessary at the conference at Wannsee?

• faulty reasoning

• inefficient methods

• sufficient weaponry

• lack of military resources

What years did the Holocaust occur?

• 1930-1945

• 1940-1945

• 1840-1945

• 1840-1845

Answer explanation

1940-1945

How could an individual escape being labeled as a Jew or Jewish?

• If either of your parents were German.

• If one of your parents was Jewish, but not the other.

• If one of your grandparents had been Jewish, but not the other.

• If you had a passport from another European country.

What tactics were utilized to deceive and eliminate Jewish people? Select all that apply.

• selection

• deception

• classical music

• starvation

Specially selected Jews known as the sonderkommando were used to remove the _______fillings and hair of people who had been gassed.

What did Auschwitz appear to be to the Jews?

• concentration camp

• faster way of travel

• a normal train station

• a place stocked with food

Small cement rooms for large numbers of Jewish prisoners were called

• cells

• gas chambers

• places of captivity

• canisters of crystals