Holocaust and Jewish Tradition Quiz

What is the Jewish mystical tradition called?

• Torah

• Zohar

• Kabbalah

• Talmud

Which concentration camp was known as one of the hardest concentration camps due to incessant maltreatment and terrorization of prisoners by SS crew and functionary prisoners?

• Auschwitz

• Buchenwald

• Gross-Rosen

• Dachau

What does the term "Aryan" refer to in Nazi ideology?

• A Jewish mystical tradition

• A term for imprisonment

• The pure, superior Germanic (Nordic, Caucasian) race

• A secret police force

What is the significance of Yom Kippur in Jewish tradition?

• A day set aside for fasting, depriving oneself of pleasures, and repenting from the sins of the previous year.

• The beginning of the Jewish new year.

• A branch of Orthodox Judaism that maintains a lifestyle separate from the non-Jewish world.

• The primary written work in the mystical tradition of the Cabbala.

What was the purpose of the Gleiwitz concentration camp?

• It was a labor camp.

• It was equipped with gas chambers and a crematorium.

• It was a death camp where the distinct purpose was the extermination of its inmates.

• It was a camp mainly for political prisoners.

What term was used by the Nazis to refer to a nomadic race they persecuted?

• Kapo

• Gypsy

• Trenchcoat

• Pilpul

Which political party did Adolf Hitler unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow in November 1923?

• The Red Army

• The Weimar Republic

• The National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)

• The Bavarian Government

What was the name given to the catastrophic event that resulted in the death of 6 million Jews during World War II?

• The Great Purge

• The Final Solution

• The Holocaust

• Shoah

What was the term 'Shoah' originally a biblical term for, as mentioned in the text?

• A great victory

• A nomadic race

• A sacrificial connotation

• A political uprising

Who was Josef Mengele?

• A Jewish physician

• A prisoner in Nazi concentration camps

• An SS physician at Auschwitz notorious for pseudo-medical experiments

• A German soldier on the Russian Front