Name ______“The Holocaust: A Teenager’s Experience” video

1.What does the statement “Some died mentally first, and then finally they died physically” mean?

A) Some people resigned themselves to the fact that they would never survive.

B) Some were too young to know what was really going on, so they worked too hard.

C) Some people had not been educated and were considered mentally unstable.

D) Some knew that the hunger pains would cause them to steal from their friends.

2.When the train reached Dachau, how many out of 150 prisoners remained alive?

A) 1 B) 3

C) 10 D) 70

3.Dachau was a work camp where everyone, no matter what age or race, had to work.

A) true B) false

4.Prisoners were marched into the Tyrolean Mountains so that they _____.

A) would freeze to death and the Germans wouldn’t have to provide for them

B) would be rescued by the resistance groups and returned to their homes

C) could join forces to fight the Americans who were advancing onto German soil

D) would be killed by American firepower, which would be blamed for their deaths and not the Germans

5.Who rescued prisoners from the “Nazi terror machine”?

A) American soldiers B) other Germans

C) resistance fighters D) other escaped prisoners

6.Why does David Bergman feel it is his duty to tell his story?

A) He hated the Germans and wanted revenge for their horrible deeds.

B) He wanted his journals to be published into a book about the Holocaust.

C) His wife, a Gypsy, wanted him to tell about the treatment of the Gypsies by the Nazis.

D) He felt it was the duty of anyone who experienced the Holocaust to not let the people who died be forgotten.

7.Why did David’s family think they would be home soon?

A) They had left other Jewish relatives behind, so they figured they could return.

B) They hadn’t been allowed to pack, so they needed to go back for their belongings.

C) Since they had never hurt anyone else, they didn’t think anyone would hurt them.

D) The Nazis did not take women and children and were told they could return to them.

8.Auschwitz was one of the Nazi’s work and concentration camps.

A) true B) false

9.Why did David and other Jews have to go through a screening and selection process?

A) The Nazis was looking for healthy people to send to the work camps.

B) The Nazis wanted to find out their real ages to see if anyone had lied to them.

C) The Nazis gave them intelligence tests to see who could write letters for them.

D) The Nazis tested their musical skills to see who could play in the camp’s orchestra.