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The Holocaust: persecution, murder and evidence

History · The Modern World · ages 15-16
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  1. About how many Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust?

    • Six thousand
    • Sixty thousand
    • Six million

  2. How did Nazi occupation during the war affect the persecution of Jews?

    • It began the anti-Jewish laws in Germany, which were introduced after the war started in 1939.
    • It placed more Jews under Nazi control, expanding the reach of persecution and mass murder.
    • It followed Germany's defeat in 1945, when deportations to Nazi killing centres began.

  3. Which list names groups identified in the lesson as targets of Nazi persecution?

    • Roma, concentration-camp guards and deportation officials.
    • Roma, people with disabilities and political opponents.
    • Political opponents, Nazi officials and occupation administrators.

  4. A historian has a transport order and a survivor's diary describing the same train. How should she investigate them?

    • Compare the dates, then use the official order to settle any difference in the diary's train details.
    • Check each source's origin and purpose, then compare the train details and investigate differences.
    • Compare the dates, then use the survivor's diary to settle any difference in the order's train details.

  5. Which evidence would challenge a claim that every Jewish victim passed through a ghetto and was then deported to a killing centre?

    • Records of Jews murdered in shootings near their homes, without deportation to a killing centre.
    • Records of Jews deported from a ghetto to a killing centre, with dates for departure and arrival.
    • Photographs of a killing centre, with evidence identifying its location and the time it operated.

  6. Which action is an example of rescue during the Holocaust?

    • Providing a hiding place for Jewish neighbours sought by the authorities.
    • Preserving secret records of persecution for people to read after the war.
    • Joining a partisan group to fight the forces carrying out the occupation.

  7. The fact that some people rescued Jews proves that everyone under Nazi rule had equal opportunities to help.

    Circle one:   True   False

  8. A historian finds a prewar law excluding Jews from public life. Which conclusion does that law support without evidence of later events?

    • The regime was using public law to exclude Jews before wartime mass murder.
    • The regime had chosen the locations where later killing centres would operate.
    • The regime had decided when its wartime deportations from ghettos would begin.
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  1. Six million · Nazi Germany, its allies and collaborators murdered about six million Jews. This estimate counts Jewish victims, not every victim of Nazi crimes.
  2. It placed more Jews under Nazi control, expanding the reach of persecution and mass murder. · Wartime conquest placed more Jews under Nazi control and expanded the reach of persecution and murder. Anti-Jewish laws preceded the war, and deportations did not begin after Germany's defeat.
  3. Roma, people with disabilities and political opponents. · The lesson identifies Roma, disabled people and political opponents as targets. The alternatives mix targeted groups with roles in administering persecution and occupation.
  4. Check each source's origin and purpose, then compare the train details and investigate differences. · Check each source before comparing its relevant details. Neither official status nor personal experience automatically settles a disagreement between sources.
  5. Records of Jews murdered in shootings near their homes, without deportation to a killing centre. · Documented murders without deportation show a different route and challenge the claim about every victim. Records of the claimed route or photographs of a centre do not supply that counterexample.
  6. Providing a hiding place for Jewish neighbours sought by the authorities. · Providing a hiding place protects people from persecution and is rescue. Preserving records and partisan fighting are forms of resistance; neither action as described supplies shelter or helps people escape.
  7. False · Rescue shows that some people helped despite danger. It does not establish equal opportunities for everyone. Threats, resources and circumstances differed.
  8. The regime was using public law to exclude Jews before wartime mass murder. · The law supplies evidence of public exclusion before wartime mass murder. It does not state the later locations of killing centres or the timing of deportations.
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