Monday, February 1, 2010

10 Questions about the Holocaust

1. Go to the site and to the Education for students section. Click on the antisemitism section. Describe the look on the peoples faces in the cartoon.

2.What does Antisemitism mean?

3.Go back to the page before this and click on the next category; Life for the Jews in Europe before the Holocaust. How many Jews lived in Europe before the Holocaust?

4.What country in Europe had the largest Jewish population?

5. Click on the small map. read the paragraph. Where did the Jews mostly occupy?

6. How many Jews were in Russia(Soviet Union) at the time?

7. Go back to the Education Page and click on the next category, Nazi rise to power. Click on the Reichstag Fire. Describe what happened.
8. Go to the 5th paragraph. How did the propaganda go in Hitlers favor?

9. Go back one page. Click on the poster. Why do you think Hitler put up posters like this?

10. Overall, why do you think the people liked Hitler?

1 comment:

Sarah S. said...

1. The people’s faces in the cartoon look very shocked. They seem pretty amazed that they’re not allowed into that little village/city just because they are Jews. It’s like they were going on holiday but because they’re Jews the people there don’t want them; some of them even have a face of disbelieve.
2. The word anti-Semitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews.
3. In 1933 approximately 9.5million Jews lived in Europe before the Holocaust
4. Poland had the largest Jewish population
5. Eastern Europe
6. About 5½ million Jews were in the Soviet Union
7. On February 27, 1933, the German parliament building burned down because of arson. Adolf Hitler issued a Decree for the Protection of the Germans on February 4th, 1933; this decree authorized the police to ban political meetings and effectively disturbing electoral campaigning, it was followed by a very harsh permanent suspension of civil rights. This in result is believed why the parliament building was burned down by supposedly communist.
8. Fears of a Communist takeover convinced many Germans that Hitler’s decisive action had saved the nation from “Bolshevism.”
9. I think Hitler put up posters like this because he wanted to make himself look good and to make people believe that he is a good man, he was doing this to get power and posters like this is in fact one of the ways he got into power.
10. Personally, I don’t think a lot of people liked Hitler but the people who did like him might have thought that he could help them and keep them save from the “Bolshevism” and other bad stuff like that. They thought that he was a good man and would be a great leader for their country.