Holocaust

Learn about the Holocaust: definitions, history, and impact. Middle school worksheet.

Holocaust Flocabulary 1. Holocaust Vocabulary Anti-Semitic feeling or showing hostility toward Jews Aryan used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of non-Jewish Caucasians, usually having Nordic features Concentration Camps during a war, especially WWII, a type of prison in which a large number of persecuted people are forced to live in very bad conditions. Sometimes the are forced to work and are killed Ghetto a quarter of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live Genocide the deliberate killing of an entire racial, political, ethnic or cultural group Nazi a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of millions of Jewish people by the Nazi Party. The Nazis believed that Aryan Germans were superior to all other people. They launched a devastating genocide against people they considered to be inferior to them. These were mainly European Jews. However, the Nazis also persecuted other groups like the Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses, disabled people and gay people. Adolf Hitler was the head of Germany’s Nazi Party. He led this campaign of hatred. Beginning with Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the Nazi Party made discrimination against Jewish people a part of German law. This legalized prejudice led to the murder of millions of people during World War II.2. Based on the passage, the Holocaust began.... with the death of Hitler in 1945. with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. after the Nazi Party lost power in Germany. before the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany. 3. The Holocaust is recognized as the end of the war in Europe in 1945. persecution of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War I. murder of millions of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II. period of violence after World War II. 4. Who did the Nazi Party target? Roma people only Jewish people only Roma and Catholic people only Jewish, Roma and disabled people, among other groups 5. What kind of laws did Adolf Hitler implement as head of state in Germany? laws that reversed the Treaty of Versailles anti-Semitic laws that persecuted Jewish people laws that punished the United States for World War I 6. Under the Nazi regime, many Jewish people rebuilt synagogues. opened new businesses. were forced to live in ghettos. 7. On the Night of Broken Glass, Nazis converted the homes of Jewish people into labor camps. confiscated the belongings of Jewish prisoners and sold them. attacked Jewish people, burned synagogues and pillaged businesses 8. In concentration camps, prisoners were trained as soldiers and forced to fight for Germany in the war. tattooed with ID numbers, and then sent home. experimented on and forced to do hard labor. given good medical care. 9. Remembering the events of the Holocaust helps us learn how to stop a genocide. honor the legacy of the victims. work to ensure that such events never happen again. all of the above 10. How was democracy destroyed in Germany? Answer the given question in 5 points All schools were cleansed and purified. This meant that teachers who were Jews or seen as ‘politically unreliable’ were dismissed. Children were first segregated: Germans and Jews could not sit together or play together. Subsequently, ‘undesirable children’ – Jews, the physically handicapped, Gypsies – were thrown out of schools. And finally in the 1940s, they were taken to the gas chambers. schools were cleansed and purified. This meant that teachers who were Jews or seen as ‘politically unreliable’ were dismissed. Ten-year-olds had to enter Jungvolk. At 14, all boys had to join the Nazi youth organisation – Hitler Youth – where they learnt to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy, and hate Jews, communists, Gypsies and all those categorised as ‘undesirable’.