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WorksheetsThe Holocaust
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
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Class
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1.
The ________________ were primarily used as a station for gathering and holding Jews until deportation; separated from the rest of the city by walls or fences.
a)
ghettos
b)
concentrations camps
c)
extermination camps
2.
_______________________________ is to have an extreme hatred for the Jews.
a)
The Holocaust
b)
Discrimination
c)
Anti-semitism
d)
Mischling
3.
Kristallnacht was a state sponsored attack on the Jews and their property; therefore, it can be described as a _______________________.
a)
Holocaust
b)
genocide
c)
untermenschen
d)
pogrom
4.
The _____________was the ‘army’ of the Nazi Party; overseeing the concentration camps, ghettos, and serving as Hitler’s personal bodyguards.
a)
Einsatzgruppen
b)
The SS or schutzstaffel
c)
gestapo
d)
the Blackshirts
5.
In 1935, the ____ denied Jews German citizenship, segregated Jews from society and also established degrees of “Jewish-ness” based on family ancestry.
a)
The Enabling Act
b)
The Nuremberg Laws
c)
The Reich Fire Decree
d)
The Wannsee Conference Laws
6.
This term was first used in the late 1950’s to describe the systematic torture and murder of Europe’s Jews: ________
a)
genocide
b)
Holocaust
c)
anti-semitism
d)
Kristallnacht
7.
A German word, Untermenschen, meaning “___ -___” used by the Nazis to refer to the groups they deemed undesirable.
a)
sub-human
b)
mixed-breed
8.
A Nazi term, ______, or “mongrel” that denoted people having both Christian and Jewish ancestry.
a)
untermenschen
b)
aryan
c)
mischling
9.
There were six of these built, all in Poland, for the sole purpose of killing as many people as possible: ____ .
a)
labor camps
b)
ghettos
c)
gas chambers
d)
death camps
10.
______, 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.
a)
Judenrat
b)
Kristallnacht
c)
Nuremberg
d)
Wannsee
11.
Once all the people had died, their bodies would then be sent to the _______ for burning and disposal.
a)
gas chambers
b)
crematorium
c)
death camps
d)
labor camps
12.
If chosen for death, some of the victims would be sent to the ______ often disguised as showers, or they would be shot.
a)
gas chambers
b)
fire pits
c)
crematorium
d)
transit camps
13.
What was the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”?
a)
How the Nazis would set up the concnetration camps working the trains.
b)
How to effectively and efficiently rid the world of the Jews
c)
How to effectively and efficiently rid Europe of the Jews.
14.
It was at the __________, which was attended by several high-ranking Nazi leaders, that the “the Final Solution to the Jewish Question” was planned.
a)
Potsdam Conference
b)
Berlin Conference
c)
Nuremberg Conference
d)
Wannsee Conference
15.
The German name of the regular army that was out fighting the war
a)
Einsatzgruppen
b)
Wehrmacht
c)
the SS
d)
Luftwaffe
16.
The name of the German airforce
a)
Wehrmacht
b)
the SS
c)
Luftwaffe
d)
Einsatzgruppen
17.
The ___ was a mobile, killing squad that was part of the SS but followed the Wehrmacht, as they moved through Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
a)
Luftwaffe
b)
Mischling
c)
Einsatzgruppen
d)
Swastika
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