Holocaust Internet Scavenger Hunt Complete the following scavenger hunt to familiarize yourself with the Holocaust.

You may use the websites given to complete the answers or any additional website you wish. Define the term Holocaust: destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war What does it mean? It comes from the Greek word "holokaustos", which means "burned whole". It has been used in English for a long time in the sense of disaster involving many deaths (especially by fire). In historical terms it was the killing of the Jewish people as well as other groups due ti tge Germans believing they were "racially superior. List five groups persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. http://www.ushmm.org/learn Roma (Gypsies) Disabled Homosexuals Slavic people (PoleS, Russians etc.) Socialists

How did the Nazis determine who was a Jew and who was not?

the Nazis ordained that a person had to be able to prove his "Aryan" ancestry back to 1750. The decrees on this were adopted as a result of the Nuremburg Laws of 1935

Compare and contrast 2 maps: the European Jewish population in 1933 map and the European Jewish population in 1950 map. Choose 3 European countries from the maps and give before and after data (specific numbers) of the Jewish population before 1933and after, 1950. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005161 HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005161&MediaId=358"& HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005161&MediaId=358"Me diaId=358 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143 HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=360"& HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=360"Me diaId=360 Country Before After

Germany Italy Austria

565,000 48,000 250,000

37,000 35,000 18,000

Describe the Nuremburg Laws. http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/nazifica.htm

The Nuremburg laws were the laws made by the Nazis that prohibited German Jews citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with any person who was German. Many of the laws were not only directed to people with Jewish religious beliefs but anyone who had Jewish background. Here are some examples: Jews were anyone who was descended from three or four Jewish grandparents; - Jews were also anyone with two Jewish grandparents and who belonged to the Jewish religion, or were married to a Jew as of the date of the adoption of the Laws; - Mischling First Degree were those with two Jewish grandparents, but who did not belong to the Jewish religion and were not married to a Jew - Mischling Second Degree were people descended from one Jewish grandparent.

Using the timeline in the year 1938, Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda Describe what happened during Kristallnacht and its purpose.

During the "Night of Broken Glass" Goebbels initiated the free-for-all against Jews. This night resulted in nearly1,000 synagogues being set on fire, 7,000 Jewsih businesses and homes looted, 100 Jews killed and about 30,000 Jews arrested to be taken to concentration camps. The purpose of the Kristallnacht was to round up as many Jews to send them to the camps.

Locate the website: http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TTQ03068/finalsolution.htm Describe Hitlers Final Solution for the Jews.

Hitler's Final Soluiton was to create an end to the Jews along with other groups of people like Gypsies and Homosexuals. He first tried erradicating the Jews by orcing Jewish emigration. After many countries deported them back however he knew he needed to find a better solution. Because Germany had by this time taken over much of Europe the "Jewish Question becane a European issue instead of just a German one.

 Explain the methods Hitler used to carry out his Final Solution. Hitler's Final Solution was to try and round up as many Jews as he could from countries like the Soviet Union. Hitler would send the SS Schutzstaffel units to search the towns to collect more and more Jews. Some Nazis would kill Jews right on the spot by shooting them with guns and throwing their bodies in giant pits. Most however were sent to concentration camps. Here Jews died from starvation or in gas chambers. The doctors would check the Jews to see who was fit and who was not. This was known as selections. Those who didn't pass would be sent to "shower" where they would open the gas that would kill them. What was the purpose of the ghetto? http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERghetto.htm

The purpose of the ghettoes were to confine all Jews. In these Ghettos the main purpose were to kill as many jews due to starvation disease and gas chambers.

Describe life in the Warsaw Ghetto. http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007708

LIfe in the Warsaw Ghetto was horrible. Small children sometimes had to smuggle food to their families by crawling into small openings in the ghetto walls risking being heavily punished by the Nazi leaders. People lived in very cramped apartments with unsanitary conditions. Human waste and garbage were thrown on the street and a lot of diseases arose in them. During the winters heating fuel was so rare that people often died from not having enough clothes or heat. Many times kids would become orphans and they would have to take care of the younger kids. Food shortages and starvation was also a problem because it was made on purpose by the Germans. Look at the following pictures and describe what is taking place in the photos. http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blpdresettle.htm

These pictures show the relocation of Jews to different concentration camps across the country. What were two forms of transportation that were used during the Holocaust? Ferries and wagons Locate the following website: http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blchart.htm One of these was not a camp. Circle the incorrect answer. a. Belzec b. Auschwitz c. Deutsch Haus d Treblinka

Which camp had the highest estimated number of murders? Auschwitz Where was it located? Oswiecim, Poland (Near Krakow)

What was the estimate? 1,100,000

Name at least three other camps, identify their locations and functions, when they were established, evacuated, and liberated. Name of Location Functions Established Evacuated Liberated Camp
Buchenwald Buchenwald, Germany Concentration July 16, 1937 April 6, 1945 April 11, 1945 SelfLiberated; April 11, 1945 by Americans April 29, 1945 by Americans May 8, 1945 by Soviets

Dachau

Dachau, Germany near Wroclaw, Poland

Concentration

March 22, 1933

April 26, 1945 February 13, 1945

Gross-Rosen

Sub Camp of Sachsenhausen: Concentration after 5/41

August 1940

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps.htm What was the purpose for building concentration camps?

Their main purpose to opress and mass murder Jews, political adversaries and others considered socially and racially undesirable. Who was imprisoned and murdered there?

People who were considered socially and racially undesirable opposed to the "pure" Aryan race such as Jews, Communists, Social Democrats, Jehovah's Witness, Gypsies, dissenting clergy, and homosexuals. Six How many concentration camps were established in Poland?

Describe the living conditions in a concentration camp.

Living conditions were terrible. There was disease spreading, starvation, unsanitary dirty waste, and gas chambers that killed thousands of people. Why do you think Germany built so many camps in Poland?

I think this was where the biggest population of Jews existed. In 1942, what was the Wannsee Conference?

This was the conference where Nazi government officials presented the Final Solution. Here the Nazis agreed to transport and destruct 11 million Jews of Europe. How many Jewish victims were murdered in the camps?

2.7 million; Total figure was between 5.2 and 5.8 million Jews (with shootings How many other victims were also murdered in the camps?

About 1 million non Jews including Why did the Nazis force inmates to go on death marches in l945?

Because , at the time the Red Army and the US military was closing onto Germany, so they wanted to kill the Jews as fast as they can without any cost. Most concentration camps at the time was low on Zyklon B and ammo, so they forced the entire camp to go on a death march. By doing this the Jews would drop dead from dehydration and starvation. Another reason why the Inmates was forced on death marches was because, they wanted to move them away from the camp to other camps. this was because, the Allied forces was close or on their way to the camps, to liberate them.

Who is Oscar Schlinder and why is he considered a hero? *Be sure to provide ample information!

Oscar Schindler was born into a wealthy Catholic family in Austria-Hungary who had gambled away most of his family's fortune. When the war started Oscar saw this as a chance to make money. He made himself useful to the SS officers by helping them find women and black-market goods. Later he bought an ammunitions factory and lowered the price of them by using Jewish

labor since it was so cheap. He is a a hero because as the war began he saw the strocities against the Jews. He made jobs in his factory essential war work so that his Jewish workers would not have to be taken to camps. Oscar then persuaded Nazi officials to move 1,100 Jewish workers aka the Schindler list to a new factory location in Bramec. Then he took over another former Jewish factory that produced bullets and missiles but nothing that he produced was in working conditions. Using all of his money Oscar bribed officials saving the lives of over a thousand Jews, By the end of the war he had used up all of his money for this.