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Holocaust Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define GENOCIDE

a)

The Jewish symbol

b)

The secret police force of Hitler

c)

To go against Hitler's beliefs and ideas.

d)

Deliberate extermination or mass murder of a racial or cultural group.

2.

A place where people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.

a)

Concentration Camp

b)

Third Reich

c)

Jail

d)

Concentrated Regime

3.

Forced removal from land or a country.

a)

Ghetto

b)

Gestapo

c)

Deportation

d)

Resistance

4.

What is a Ghetto?

a)

Segregated neighborhoods where certain groups were forced to live

b)

A residence that is outside of city limits

c)

A wealthy neighborhood

d)

A home for displaced persons

5.

Personal, elite bodyguards who did most of the killing ordered by Hitler. The cruelest of all of Hitler's armies.

a)

Schutzstaffel (SS)

b)

Gestapo

c)

Swastika

d)

Nazi

6.

A Nazi is.....

a)

German Secret State Police, which was under SS control. It was responsible for investigating political crimes and opposition activities.

b)

A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

c)

Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard unit. The cruelest of all Hitler's armies.

d)

All of the Above

7.

This symbol represents hate during World War II. Name this symbol

a)

Swastika

b)

Star of David

c)

Jude

d)

Spider Cross

8.

Hitler's belief of a "superior race" with blonde hair and blue eyes.

a)

Aryan

b)

Nazi

c)

Jude

d)

Schutzstaffel

9.

A building where bodies or objects are burned to ash.

a)

Crematorium

b)

Final Solution

c)

Aryan

d)

Gestapo

10.

Identify this image.

a)

Himmler

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

Otto Frank

11.

What is the definition of resistance?

a)

A secret organization resisting authority, especially in an occupied country.

b)

The refusal to accept or comply with something.

c)

Armed or violent opposition.

d)

All of them

12.

The German word for Jew/Jewish

a)

Judaism

b)

Yellow Star of David

c)

Jude

d)

Jew

13.

Define the phrase, "Final Solution."

a)

Freeing all Jews to work camps after the war.

b)

Feeding the Jews after working hard

c)

Giving each person of Jewish faith a job after the ending of the war.

d)

Eliminating all Jews in Europe as quickly as possible.

14.

The German phrase outside the gates of Auschwitz, "Arbeit Macht Frei" translates to English as meaning....?

a)

Work Sets You Free

b)

Enjoy your Stay!

c)

Everyone is Welcomed!

d)

No Jews Allowed!

15.

Define Anti-Semitism:

a)

Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.

b)

The elite German army during the Nazi regime.

c)

The location of the Final Solution for Hitler and the SS.

d)

A place where Jews are brought by train and left alone.

16.

What is great-grandpa's name in the documentary, The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm?

a)

Jack

b)

Elliott

c)

Jude

d)

Adolph

17.

How did Elliot's great-grandpa survive the concentration camp?

a)

Money he gave a Nazi he found in a hat given to him by his father.

b)

He begged a Nazi soldier and promised him money.

c)

By fishing and catching food for the Nazi's.

d)

Hiding behind cattle cars and sleeping in trenches.

18.

This term is also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

a)

The Final Solution

b)

Hitler's Regime

c)

The Holocaust

d)

War of the Worlds

19.

Where did the Holocaust take place?

a)

United States

b)

South America

c)

Asia

d)

Europe

20.

Name this symbol.

a)

Swastika

b)

Schutzstaffel

c)

Star of David

d)

Jude

21.

The official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

a)

Schutzstaffel

b)

Nazi

c)

Jude

d)

Gestapo

22.

StudySync said , "Groups of people who share similar interests and attitudes produce feelings of community. Belonging to a group is so important that exclusion from a group can activate areas of the brain that are normally activated by real physical pain. However, along with joining a group, quarreling also seems to be a basic human trait." This is an example of..

a)

Racism

b)

Conflict in Communities

c)

Concentration Camps

d)

Community Groups

23.

Who wore this uniform?

a)

Nazi

b)

Jews

c)

Gestapo

d)

Schutzstaffel

24.

Who wore this uniform?

a)

Nazi

b)

Jews

c)

Gestapo

d)

Shutzstaffel

25.

1. Why did prisoners of the concentration camp have a number on their arms?

2. Where was it placed on the body?

a)

1. To identify Jews

2. Shirt

b)

1. To find who was NOT Jewish

2. Forearm

c)

1. To put into ghettos

2. Left Hand

d)

1. To identify Jews

2. Forearm

26.

From what years did the Holocaust occur?

a)

1930-1935

b)

1940-1945

c)

1933-1945

d)

1920-1930

27.

Jews had to wear the Star of David on the outside of all of their clothing to easily be identified as a Jew.

1. What color was the star?

2. What did the star say?

3. This statement is True/This statement is False

a)

1. Blue

2. Jew

3. True

b)

1. Yellow

2. Jude

3. True

c)

1. Blue

2.Jude

3. False

d)

1. Yellow

2. Jew

3. False

28.
How were the Jews transported to the different camps?
a)
Cattlecars
b)
Taxis
c)
Police vans
d)
Horse & buggy
29.

What number closest represent the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust?

a)

6,000,000

(6 million)

b)

6,000

(6 thousand)

c)

600,000,000

(600 million)

d)

16,000,000

(16 million)

30.

Propaganda (posters, billboards, newspaper ads, radio ads) from Hitler and his Nazis expressed hatred towards Jews?

a)

True

b)

False

31.

It is important to learn about the Holocaust.

a)

Yes

b)

No