Reference no: EM133457030

Questions

1. What was a Judenrat ("Jewish Council")?

None of the above

Jewish informer for the Germans

Refuge for Jews who escaped

A council of Jews appointed by the Nazis to administer the ghettos

2. Which Nazi war criminal was tried by the State of Israel in the 1960s?

Joseph Goebbels

Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Hitler

Albert Speer

3. What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws?

To deprive Jewish people of their civil rights

To order the killing of all German Jews.

To encourage a boycott of Jewish shops

To prevent Jewish people from becoming doctors, lawyers or teachers

4. Did the Allies and the people in the Free World know about the events going on in Europe?

No. The extermination campaign was completely secret.

Yes. Many key events were reported in the press, even if not all details were known.

5. "Righteous Among the Nations" refers to:

Catholic Priests imprisoned by the Nazis

Jewish victims who died during the Holocaust

Non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews from Nazi murder.

All Jesuit victims of Nazi Germany

6. Nearly all of the Nazi extermination camps were located in which country?

Poland

Ukraine

Germany

Russia

7. The events in Jedwabne, Poland during mid-1941 are an example of:

Allied counterintelligence efforts

Participation of non-Germans (here: Poles) in the murder of Jews

The German killing of innocent civilians

Local resistance to Nazi rule

8. Along with Jews, Nazi Germany targeted which of the following groups?

LGBTQ people

Roma and Sinti ("Gypsies")

Mentally and Physically Disabled

Slavic People (Eastern European origins)

All of the answers are correct.

9. What percentage of Jewish victims during the Holocaust died in extermination camps, gas vans, and gas chambers?

40%

25%

50%

100%

10. In some towns, surviving Jewish people who returned to claim their houses and property after the Holocaust were driven out or even murdered by their former neighbors.

True

False