Holocaust Webquest Answer Key

Holocaust The Holocaust was a terrible and tragic time in modern history during which millions of people were systematically destroyed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. These people were targeted by the Nazis because of their beliefs, background, heritage, and/or their lifestyle. During this virtual assignment, you will need to log notes about your learning. Let’s begin the step by step process: Save this document and your progress as you go along. You may type right into the gray text boxes starting at the arrows (>>). Your teacher may ask you to print out this page so you can show what you learned. 1. Begin your tour by reading the first paragraph of this brief article: Holocaust. During what major war did the Holocaust occur? >> it occurred during World War II What types of people did Hitler kill? >> Jewish, Polish, Catholic, Serbs, and handicapped people. 2. Let’s find out why the Holocaust happened. Scroll down to the “ the Nazis do it?” Why Did Hitler and section. Use that paragraph to answer the following questions. What were some of the main reasons Hitler decided to kill Jews? >> he consider Jewish people to be less than human. He also hated them caused they blamed them for losing World War I. What disturbing message did Hitler write in his book, “Mein Kampf”? >> that when he became ruler he would rid Germany of all the jews. What were two things that Hitler did as soon as he became Chancellor? >> He started his work against Jews. 3. Have you ever heard of a ghetto? Read about them in the paragraph called “Ghettos .” Describe what living in a ghetto would be like. >> there was little food, water, or medicine available. It was also very crowded with multiple families sometimes sharing rooms. What happened to Jews that were sent to concentration camps? >>people were forced for hard labor. The weak were killed or died of starvation. 4. Read more about concentration camps to get some insight on what it is like to live there. 5. To answer the questions below, read from the section “ Hiding .” TRUE or FALSE (Write T or F on each line.) >> _F_Jewish families would hide with other Jewish families >> _T_ Jews would pretend to be part of the family they were hiding with >> _T_Some Jews were able to escape across the border 6. Now we’ll move on to stories of Heroes . Read each of the sections about the heroes to answer the questions below. What are the three heroes/stories that were described and why are they so important? >>Anne Frank’s Diary tells the real-life story of a young girl. Schindler’s List tells you the story of Oskar Schindler. The Hiding Place tells you the true story of Corrie ten Boom 7. One of the stories that you read about was Anne Frank. Anne Frank hid in an annex for two years before she was found by the Nazis. Look around on this website and “step inside” the different rooms to find more information about them. Have fun! 8. Now take this quiz on the information that you just read. What score did you get? (The score is below the quiz) >> 10/10 100% What was hardest question for you? >> who was Corrie ten Boom? For the following questions, you will be getting into more details about the Holocaust. 9. Lets learn about how Hitler came to power. Read the first part of this article to answer the questions below. Why was the mood grim in Germany in the 1930’s? >> The Nazis continued to win over voters. What percent of the vote did the Nazi party get in 1924? >>3 percent of the national vote. What percent of the vote did the Nazi party get in 1932? >> they won 37% of the vote. 10. Let’s read about how the Nazi terror began. What are two rights that individuals lost in Germany under the Nazis? Why? >> they lost the right to privacy and individual freedoms, including freedom of press, speech, and assembly. 11. Read about the SS Police State What are the SS? >> the SS is a special guard for Adolf Hitler and other party leaders. Who created/led them? >> The black-shirted SS members formed a smaller, elite group whose members also served as auxiliary policemen and, later, as concentration camp guards. What did Dachau become the ideal model for? >> they held political opponents without trial and under conditions of great cruelty. 12. View this page on Nazi Propaganda and Censorship and fill our the questions below. What did the Nazis do to any viewpoint they felt threatened by? >> They tried to control forms of communication through censorship and propaganda. Who was the Nazi Propaganda Minister? >> It was led by Joseph Goebbels. What types of books were burned by the Nazis starting in 1933? >> closing down newspapers burning books the Nazis categorized as un-German. 13. Racism, a big problem today, was even worse during the Holocaust. Let’s read some more about Nazi racism. What was the Germanic race called? >> An Aryan “master race.” What was said that the ideal person looked like? >> Blond, blue-eyed, and tall. Explain how the Nazis began to put their racial ideology into practice. >> they spread publicly displayed posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. 14. Read about some Jews in Prewar Germany and fill in the blanks. _70% Jews lived in Germany in 1933. (number) Jews were __ 100,000__ percent of the German population which consisted of 67 million people. 15. Read about Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust. How many Jews lived in areas that would be occupied by Germany during World War II? >> about 5 ½ million jews lived there. What percent of the Jewish population would be dead in these occupied countries by the end of the war? >> two out of every three would be dead 16. Read this article about Antisemitism. What is Antisemitism? It means prejudice against or hated of jew. >> For centuries, the church taught that Jews were responsible for Jesus death. 17. You have been working hard! Lets play a game! Click HERE to get to the word search. Click HERE to get to the word search. Once you see the word search click “Print this page” and print it out. After you finish it, bring the word search to your teacher. 18. Have you ever heard of the Nuremberg Race laws? Read about them! What did the Nuremberg Race Laws do? >> they believed in the false theory that the world is divided into distinct races that are not equally strong and valuable 19. Click HERE to find out what the “Final Solution” was. True or False? T The Final Solution happened in stages. The six extermination camps were: Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. 20. Read about the Wannsee Conference and more about the “Final Solution”. When was the Wannsee Conference? >> Jan 20 1942 What city was it held in? >>Berlin What was said and planned by key Germans at the Wannsee Conference? >> discussing the "final solution 21. You may have heard of deportations. Read about them! Why was gas chosen as the preferred method to kill people? >> 22. Do you know about Auschwitz? Let’s find out more. How many people died at Auschwitz? >> Why type of experiments did Dr. Josef Mengele perform on people? >> Who were his typical victims? >> 23. Take a look at this article on Death Marches. Why did the Death Marches happen? >> 24. Jews were ultimately liberated. What happened to half of the survivors at Auschwitz within a few days of being freed? Why did that happen? >> . 25. Lets take a break from reading and watch a quick video from an interview with a survivor of the Holocaust! Complete the following statements about Ruth Cohen. When Ruth was __ years old she was taken to a concentration camp called ________. Some of the people Ruth became friends with were very _________. Ruth hopes her _________ will remember her personally. 26. When people in concentration camps got rescued it was a big part of the Holocaust. Read about it! Is this statement true or false? (write T or F) __T here was no one who tried to help save some of the Jews. 27. Read to find out more about the survivors! How were Jewish survivors of the Holocaust treated after WWII, especially in Poland? Why? >> What county was created in 1948? Why? >>