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Tales of the Holocaust
100
How many people were forced to stand in a 9 square foot space on a railcar?
5 to 6
100
Which ghetto hosted the first performance of the Brundibar opera on September 23, 1943 (and many thereafter)?
Terezin Ghetto
100
Of all the people in Anne's Annex, who survived?
Otto Frank (Anne's dad)
100
Who originally wore paperclips to demonstrate their opposition to Nazism and Anti-Semitism during WWII?
Norwegians
100
What was the name of Anne Frank's diary?
Kitty
200
Who was thrown over the walls of the Kovno Ghetto in a potato sack?
Suly Chenkin
200
What year did Hitler become chancellor of Germany?
1933
200
Who was Heinrich Himmler? A) Plunderer of the Jews B) Organizer of the Final Solution C) Hitler's Right Hand Man D) Master of Propoganda
C) Hitler's Right Hand Man
200
Which disease caused the most deaths during the Holocaust?
Typhus
200
Who was in charge of running daily life in the ghettos?
Judenraete
300
What did prisoners eat for lunch in concentration camps?
watery soup with tiny amounts of turnip or potato peels
300
How long did it take for the US to officially respond to the Holocaust?
9 years
300
How did Emanuel Ringelblum help document life for Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto?
Collected accounts of daily life and hid them in milk can time capsules
300
What were the 3 things German girls were taught through the Hitler Youth Program?
Children, Church, and Kitchen
300
What was the only piece of nature that Anne Frank saw during her time in the Annex?
the oak tree outside of her window
400
What city did the first Kindertransport leave from?
Berlin
400
On July 4, 1946 a non-Jewish Polish boy left his house without telling his parents. He didn't want to get in trouble, so he said he had been kidnapped and hidden in a local Jewish building. As a result, Polish soldiers, police officers, and civilians murdered or injured over 80 Polish Jews. What was the name of this event?
Kielce Pogrom
400
Who took the blame for Kristallnacht?
Herschel Grynszpan
400
What did Hitler say the "people's car" should look like?
a beetle
400
What was the name of the non-violent resistance group of college students founded by Hans Scholl, Shopie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Will Graf, and Alexander Schmorell?
White Rose
500
How did the Grossman family escape death?
The factory where they worked was ordered to kill everybody but there were too many people. Liberation happened before they were killed.
500
Which boat set sail from Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939 to carry 937 Jewish passengers to Cuba?
S.S. St. Louis
500
What did Irena Sendler do to help save Jewish people during the Holocaust?
She disguised herself as a nurse and created false documents to help smuggle children out of danger.
500
What did a blue triangle on a concentration camp uniform mean? A) Jehova's Witness B) Emigrant C) Criminal D) Polish
B) Emigrant
500
Why were David Olere's paintings and sketches important?
They were the only images of the Auschwitz gas chambers because there were no photographs. They were eventually used as legal evidence against the Nazis.