Mrs. Barnett’s 7th Grade Holocaust Webquest
We are going to be exploring the topic of the Holocaust. Please visit the following sites and answer all the questions in a complete sentence on your own paper.
What is genocide?
1)The word “genocide” was a new word…how did it come to be? Where did it come from?
2) Define genocide in your own words.
3)What time period did the Holocaust happen in?
Hitler and Power
4. What “levels” or types of people were drawn to the beliefs of Hitler and the Nazi Party?
5. How did these events lead to the rise to power of the Nazi Party?
a. Treaty of Versailles
b. Stock Market Crash in New York
c. Nazis lose support in Parliamentary elections
Nazi
6. What was Hitler’s term for the “master race?” Describe this type of person.
7. What types of German citizens were victims of the Nazi Party?
8. What did German scientists and physicians do to further the idea of “a perfect race?”
9. What was the racial purity law?
Anti-Semitism
10. What is anti-Semitism?
11. What are some of the beliefs that are different in the Jewish and Christian religions?
11. When did anti-Semitism begin? What happened?
12. What other nations treated Jews as scapegoats (placed the blame on them)? {describe two}
13. Who was Karl Lueger? What did he believe?
The Nuremberg Race Laws
14. According to the Nuremberg Law of 1935, how did the German government decide if someone was Jewish? What was the problem with this law?
15. What did the German government require of Jews in German society?
16. Why did the Nazi’s moderate their anti-Jewish attacks before the 1936 Olympic Games?
17. What happened after the Olympic Games to the German Jews?
Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass
18. What happened on November 9, 1938? What caused the violence?
19. What was the result of the Night of Broken Glass? What happened to the Jews then?
Refugee Map
20. What countries accepted the most Jewish refugees?
Evian Conference
21. Why did the US not allow more refugees to come into the country before WWII?
22. By 1938, how many Jews had left Germany?
23. What was the Wagner-Rogers bill?
The Final Solution
24. What was the goal of the “Final Solution?”
25. How did the Nazi’s hope to achieve the “Final Solution?”
Ghettos
26. What is a ghetto? Describe it?
27. How many ghettos existed in German occupied territories?
28. Describe the largest ghetto.
Abe's Story
29. Describe the picture and explain people are treated.
Abe's Story continued
30. Describe how the conditions worsened.
31. What does Abe do? Where does he go? Why?
Concentration Camps
32. What were the first Nazi concentration camps?
33. What was the primary purpose of these camps?
Forced Labor Camps
34. Describe what happens to most “workers.”
Death Camps
35. What happened at most of these camps?
Death Marches
36. Why were people forced to go on these marches?
Family Photo
37. Describe this photo. What would be a good caption for it.
Powerful images
38. Choose three images. Tell what it is and then describe them.
Liberation
39. Which county was the first to liberate the concentration camps?
40. When Auschwitz was liberated, what was found besides sick and exhausted prisoners?
41. Describe what the American army journalist saw at Dachau.
42. Why did so many surviving prisoners die within a few days of being freed?
Survivors
43. Describe one hardship survivors had to face.
Survivors Poem
44. Read the poem and summarize what it is about.
Why teach about the Holocaust?
45. If you were going to teach about the Holocaust; what would you include?