Student Name: ______
You get a grade for taking the following survey and attempting all of the questions. I need to know what it is that you know about the Holocaust already as we begin the unit so I can tailor what we study to what you don’t know.
True False
______1. The word “Holocaust” was invented to describe what happened during World War II.
______2. The Holocaust occurred during the years 1940-1945.
______3. World War I happened during 1914-1918 and World War II happened during 1939-
1945.
______4. The name of the political party in power during the Holocaust was theNational
Socialist Party.
______5. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazis, and he was born in Germany.
______6. Almost all Germans were official members of the Nazi party.
______7. Hitler’s grandmother was part Jewish.
______8. A large percentage of the German population in 1933 was Jewish.
______9. Even though the Jews were the main victims group during the Holocaust, other victims
were also persecuted and killed in largenumbers.
______10. The main reason that Jews were targeted was because Hitler believed that their
religion was false.
______11. As soon as Hitler got into power, he immediately began putting Jews into
concentration camps.
______12. Most of the concentration camps that were built were in Germany.
______13. The rest of the world didn’t do anything to stop Hitler and what was happening
during the Holocaust because they didn’t have any ideaof what was going on in
Germany.
______14. Some of the killing methods in the camps were to starve people, beat them, gas them,
shoot them, or do medical experiments on them.
______15. Less than one percent of the non-Jewish population tried to rescue anyof the victims
during the Holocaust.
______16. No people ever escaped from the ghettoes or concentration camps.
______17. There were resistance movements which were successful, both in andout of the
concentration camps.
______18. It was possible to survive a gas chamber experience in the concentration camps.
______19. Most of the victims deported to concentration camps had never heard of the killing
centers or the camps and had no idea of what was waiting for them.
______20. It is a proven fact that Hitler committed suicide in April of 1945.
______21. Because of the lessons learned from the Holocaust, nothing like it has ever happened
again.
______22. The United States has the largest number of Neo-Nazis and Holocaust Deniers of any
country in the world.
______23. Germany does a very good job of facing what happened during the Holocaust and
making sure that Holocaust education is taught in their schools at all levels.
______24. Oskar Schindler was a famous rescuer during the Holocaust who set out from the
beginning to rescue as many Jews as he could.
______25. Anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) is not really found anywhere in the world now since
we have learned our lessons from the Holocaust.