Vocabulary
Chapter 9/10
Surviving Hitler Story
The Holocaust
Holocaust Knowledge
100
Kapo
What is an inmate of a concentration camp put in charge of a work gang
100
What illness does Jack get?
Dysentery
100
Name one concentration camp Jack was in.
Auschwitz, Blechhammer
100
Name two countries where this was happening
Answers will vary (Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Holland, Ukraine)
100
What was the attempt to exterminate the Jewish race by the Germans?
The Holocaust
200
Crematorium
What is place where corpses were incinerated
200
Why do you never see grass in a concentration camp?
The prisoners ate it
200
Why did the Nazis give prisoners a number?
To dehumanize them
200
What is a scapegoat? Who is being used as a scapegoat?
Someone unfairly blamed for the wrongs done by others or used to turn attention away from wrongdoings of others. The Jews were blamed.
200
How were Jews identified?
By wearing the Star of David
300
a neighborhood or area where Jews were imprisoned
What is a ghetto
300
How do we know the tall kapo was nice?
The kapo stayed by Jack; took him to the infirmary; let him lie down in the barracks
300
Why did the letter in Chapter 4 cause the Nazis to separate Jack from his family?
It said that Jack could work. The Nazis put him in the workers group, which was only for men.
300
What year was this occurring?
1939-1945 (Hitler took over in 1933)
300
Name 2 other groups other than Jews that the Holocaust persecuted?
Homosexuals, Gypsies, Disabled or Mentally ill, Communists, and Socialists
400
sadistic
What is getting pleasure by inflicting pain on another person
400
When he was in the sick barracks, he realized he had to get out of there whether he was sick or not. Why?
There were too many patients. The doctor started killing patients with shots.
400
What was another use of the prisoners food can?
It became a place to use the bathroom at night
400
When prisoners arrived at a death camp, they went through the selection process. What was this?
Prisoners were sent to a group on the right or the left, to life or to death. Those give the death sign were taken directly to the gas chambers.
400
Who were Aryan people? What did they look like?
Blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin
500
anti-Semitic
What is being prejudiced or discriminating against Jews
500
How was Moniek different than other prisoners?
Moniek was friendly. He smiled and told jokes.
500
In chapter 4, Jack states this was “the worst moment in (his) life." What is he talking about?
The worst moment of his life was when Jack was separated from his brother, mother, uncle, and family.
500
How did the Nazis use propaganda for their benefit?
Propaganda is the art of persuasion. They taught people at a young age to believe in what they wanted them to believe in.
500
Where were Jews held until they were sent to death camps?
Ghettos
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