Anticipatory Set Discuss the following questions with your
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Anticipatory Set Discuss the following questions with your neighbor: • What do you do know about the Holocaust? • Do you think something like that can happen again?
The Holocaust • In groups of 3 -4 use book/notes to answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Who were the victims of the Holocaust? Who were members of the “master race”? What were the Nuremberg Laws? What happened on the night of Nov 9, 1938? What was Hitler’s “final solution”? Where did German Jews Try to migrate ro find safety from Nazi terror? Where were Jews forced to live in German-controlled cities? Where were the concentration camps? Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other “subhumans” had to be exterminated? Why did the Germans build extermination camps? When did the final stage of the Final Solution begin? How did non-Jewish people try to save Jews from the horrors of Nazism? How many Jews died in the Holocaust? 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
The Holocaust 1. Who were the victims of the Holocaust? Non-Aryan peoples, mainly Jews 2. Who were members of the “master race”? Aryans 3. What were the Nuremberg Laws? German laws depriving Jews of rights to citizenship and jobs 4. What happened on the night of Nov 9, 1938? On Kristallnacht, Nazis launched a violent attack on Jewish communities all over GER 5. What was Hitler’s “final solution”? Systematic killing of entire groups of people, particularly Jews 6. Where did German Jews Try to migrate ro find safety from Nazi terror? France, Britain, US, and other countries 7. Where were Jews forced to live in German-controlled cities? In ghettos: segregated Jewish areas
The Holocaust 8. Where were the concentration camps? Mainly in Germany & Poland 9. Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other “subhumans” had to be exterminated? To protect the purity of the Aryan race 10. Why did the Germans build extermination camps? To carry out mass murders in huge gas chambers 11. When did the final stage of the Final Solution begin? Early 1942 12. How did non-Jewish people try to save Jews from the horrors of Nazism? By hiding Jews in their homes or helping them escape to neutral countries 13. How many Jews died in the Holocaust? Approximately 6, 000
