(Selena Siri, Period 10)

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. 1. Define the term Holocaust: The Nazi mass murder or genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II What does it mean? It was named Shoah, a Hebrew name for the catastrophe. List five groups persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. http://www.ushmm.org/learn 1. Soviet Civilians 2. Polish 3. Soviet Prisoners of war 4. Homosexuals 5. Jewish 3. How did the Nazis determine who was a Jew and who was not? Jews were forced to wear a star on their clothes, showing their religion for classification purposes to the Nazis. There were also written documents distinguishing Jews from the rest of society. 4. 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 1933-and after, 1950. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005161&MediaId=358 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=360 Country Before After

1. _____Soviet Union _____ __________2,525,000_____ _______________2,000,000__________ 2. ____Romania_____________ ______756,000________ _________280,000________________ 3. ______Poland________________ _____3,000,000__________ _______45,000__________ 5. Describe the Nuremburg Laws. http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/nazifica.htm After Hitler transformed Germany into a police state, The Nuremberg Laws in 1935 took away rights from Jews, and gave more power to Germans. Jews were classified by their race, and targeted by the Nazis. The laws did not allow any Jew and German to have marriages or sexual relations, and were passed before WWII. 6. Using the timeline in the year 1938, _Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda 7. Describe what happened during Kristallnacht and its purpose. Kristallnacht was then the germans annexed Sudetenland, and it is known as the Night of Broken Glass. One thousand synagogues were put under flames, hundreds of Jews were killed, and over 7,000 Jewish homes were harmed. The Jews were forced to pay for the damages caused by the Nazis.

8. Locate the website: http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TTQ03068/finalsolution.htm Describe Hitlers Final Solution for the Jews. In 1941 Hitler finally decided to murder the Jews, in order to end the Jewish Question. This massive murder plan was known as his final solution.

9. Explain the methods Hitler used to carry out his Final Solution. Hitler sent out SS groups and Nazis to search out all the Jews and take them to death camps. Sometimes Jews were killed on the spot, but most were taken to camps. 10. What was the purpose of the ghetto? http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERghetto.htm The Jewish ghettos were created to trap Jews in large communities. Jews would be taken from their homes and placed in ghettos, which were surrounded by barbed wire, brick walls, and armed guards. There were police that would watch over the Ghettos. Conditions would be very bad and many deaths resulted from the conditions. 11. Describe life in the Warsaw Ghetto. http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007708 Conditions were extremely difficult, because the people were living in cramped homes that were not sanitary. Plumbing would not work, so then waste would be transferred into the streets. Diseases arose from these unsanitary environments. The police watching over would make sure the people were weak from starvation, so the people needed to hide valuables for trade, steal, and beg in order to stay alive. 12. Look at the following pictures and describe what is taking place in the photos. http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blpdresettle.htm Jews were taken out of their homes, and moved to concentration camps. They lost their most valued goods and belongings. Most importantly, they lost their civil rights, while the Nazis had the power to order them towards death camps.

13. What were two forms of transportation that were used during the Holocaust? Freight and passenger cars were used by the Germans to deport Jews to and from concentration camps. 14. 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

15. Which camp had the highest estimated number of murders? ____Auschwitz_ Where was it located? __Oswiecim, Poland (near Krakow)

What was the estimate? _May 26,1940_____________________

16. Name at least three other camps, identify their locations and functions, when they were established, evacuated, and liberated. Name of Camp Dachau Location Functions Established Evacuated April 26, 1945 April 1 1945 Liberated April 29, 1945 April 9, 1945 August 17, 1944

Dachau, Germany Dora/Mittelbau Near Nordhausen, Germany Drancy Drancy France

Concentration March 22, 1933 Sub-camp of August 27 Buchenwald; 1943 Concentration Assembly/ August 1941 Detention

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps.htm

17. What was the purpose for building concentration camps? The concentration camps were used for the mass murder of Jews. It was used as concentration camps, forced labor camps, extermination
or death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps.

18. Who was imprisoned and murdered there? Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and people who insulted the German Nazis were sent to concentration camps to be murdered. 19. How many concentration camps were established in Poland? Six concentration camps were established in Poland. 20. Describe the living conditions in a concentration camp. The concentration camp had brutal conditions. Victims would face starvation, while many died due to diseases. Others caught mental illnesses due to the terror which resulted from the death camps.

21. Why do you think Germany built so many camps in Poland? Poland had a very large population, which required a great amount of death camps in order to murder a majority of the Polish population quickly, efficiently, and in large numbers. 22. In 1942, what was the Wannsee Conference? The Nazi government decided at the Wannsee conference the annihilation of 11 million Jews. 23. How many Jewish victims were murdered in the camps? 2.7 million Jews were killed in the concentration camps. 24. How many other victims were also murdered in the camps? Approximately 5 million other victims were also murdered by the Nazis. 25. Why did the Nazis force inmates to go on death marches in l945? The Nazis forced prisoners on death marches, in order to conceal their the crimes they have committed.

26. Who is Oscar Schlinder and why is he considered a hero? *Be sure to provide ample information! Oscar Schlinder was a Nazi member who rescued over one thousand Jews from deportation to death camps! He also brought many Jews out from the ghetto, and employed them with jobs to survive. Schlinder supported for the civil rights of Jews, and saved lives from the Nazi concentration camps. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005787