"Holocaust" traditionally had meant
a burnt offering used as a sacrifice
a caustic hologram
a hollow vessel that was costly
a time of renewal
When people talk about "the Holocaust" now, they are usually referring to
The volcano on top of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy
The fires during the 1890's when the forests of Uzbekistan burned
A time during World War II when approximately 6 million Jews and others deemed undesirable were killed in Europe by the Axis powers, mostly Nazi Germany.
A group of people who protest against injustice in Europe
"Anti-Semitic" means
someone who is against the Seminole Indians receiving restitution from the United States government for loss of their ancestral homelands
someone who does not believe the polarity of the magnetic field of the earth has ever changed.
a certain type of antiseptic that works for very new diseases like Ebola
a racial bias against Jews
Adolph Hitler was born in
Poland
Germany
Austria
Yugoslavia
Adolph Hitler blamed the Jews for
the lunar eclipse of 1899, when he was 10 years old
making him eat fish cakes at his school on Fridays
the fact that Germany lost World War I
the fact that there exist black people in Africa
Adolph Hitler's book that describes his philosophy that led to Nazism in which he predicted a general European war that would result in “the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany.” was
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Gesundheit
Guten Tag
Mein Kampf
A concentration camp was
a place you could get away on retreat and concentrate on your work
a place where Jews and others deemed undesirable were sent to be eliminated
a camp for kids to go to in summer to increase their concentration skills
a chemical plant where dyes were concentrated until they were dark enough to be used to color military uniforms
The first concentration camp was built in and was under the control of .
Under the Laws Jews became the targets of stigmatization and persecution.
"Kristallnacht" is the "night of " in when synagogues were burned and Jewish shop windows were smashed. One Hundred Jews were killed and thousands more arrested.
The "final solution" to the "Jewish question" was to
put all the Jews on boats and send them out of the country via the Rhine River
convert the Jews to Naziism and change their names to traditional German names
eliminate all Jews from German occupied lands by killing them and give their property to Germans
allow the Jewish population to have an equal vote in the Senate
In September 1939 the Jews of Germany were forced into — crowded areas surrounded by fences in which the Jews were allowed to run their own affairs, but they were not allowed to leave.
At a camp called , over 2 million people were killed. In the year 1944, 12000 Jews were killed there every day.
After the war, during the years 1945 and 1946 the Trials were held, in which Nazi atrocities were brought to light, and some of the perpetrators who had survived the war were convicted by the Allies.
The Jews were given a homeland in Israel in the year .
