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? Greek origin meaning, sacrifce by fire List five groups persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. http://www.ushmm.org/learn Polish Mentally Ill, disabled, deaf___________________________________________ homosexuals____________________________________________ Romanies or gypsies____________________________________________ political enemies, communists____________________________________________ Jehovas witnesses____________________________________________ How did the Nazis determine who was a Jew and who was not? Nazis looked through census records, synagogue membership lists, tax returns. They also used stereotypes, (Example: Big noses, curly hair)

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=3 58 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=3 60 Country Spain Switzerland Poland Before 4000 18,000 3,000,000 3000 21,000 45,000 After

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

Using the timeline in the year 1938, Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda Describe what happened during Kristallnacht and its purpose. A day in which Jewish homes and buisneses and homes were destroyed. Synagogues were burned. Its purpose was to intimidate Jews.

Locate the website: http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TTQ03068/finalsolution.htm Describe Hitlers Final Solution for the Jews. Hitler wanted to rid Europe of all Jews and others considered sub-human.

Explain the methods Hitler used to carry out his Final Solution. Hitler opened up death camps and concentration camps. Gas chambers. Crematoriums.

What was the purpose of the ghetto? http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERghetto.htm To confine Jews. Temporary place for the jews to stay.

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

small children had to smuggle food. overcrowding. resources were scarce. many lacked good clothing.

Look at the following pictures and describe what is taking place in the photos. http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blpdresettle.htm
Jews are moving their belongings into the ghettos. They are being forced into the ghettos.

What were two forms of transportation that were used during the Holocaust? Jews were transported in unsanitary wagons and small inhumane carts.

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? Auchwitz Where was it located? Oswiecim, Poland

What was the estimate? 2.5 million to 4 million

Name at least three other camps, identify their locations and functions, when they were established, evacuated, and liberated. Name of Camp
Belzec

Location

Functions

Established

Evacuated

Liberated

German occupied Poland Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany Lower Saxony, Northern Germany

Death camp Labor camp

17 March, 1942 1933

End of June of 1943 1945

End of war

Dauchau

By U.S 29, April, 1945

Bergen Belson

Labor Camp

1940

1945

U.K, April 15, 1945

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps.htm What was the purpose for building concentration camps? Camps were an essential part of the Nazis' systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable.

Who was imprisoned and murdered there? Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, disabled

How many concentration camps were established in Poland? 6 Describe the living conditions in a concentration camp. Most perished due to starvation, illness, and execution. Why do you think Germany built so many camps in Poland? They didnt want the evidence in their own country.

In 1942, what was the Wannsee Conference? to discuss the final solution of Hitlers plan. How many Jewish victims were murdered in the camps? 6 million

How many other victims were also murdered in the camps? 5 million Why did the Nazis force inmates to go on death marches in l945? the allies were closing in on the Nazi camps. Who is Oscar Schlinder and why is he considered a hero? *Be sure to provide ample information! Schindler being a German man who was a nazi, ended up helping the jews. He saved 1200 jews by hiring them in his factories.