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