The Holocaust Web Scavenger Hunt

The Holocaust Web Scavenger Hunt
Directions: Go to the website of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum to find the following…
www.ushmm.org
1. The definition of “Holocaust” is: “the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored
persecution and murder of approximately ___________________ ( how many?) Jews
by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.”
2. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "__________________________."
3. When did the Nazis come to power in Germany? ____________________
4. The Nazis targeted the Jews because they believed
_______________________________________________________________________.
5. In addition to the Jews, the Nazis targeted these groups:
_______________________________________________________________________.
6. In 1933, the Jewish population stood at ___________________________________.
7. By May 1945, the Nazis had murdered ______ out of every _______ Jews in Europe.
8. Find and print a map of the Nazi concentration camps from 1933-1939 (print to printer
h-206 in the English office).
9. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about ____________ ( how
many) camps to imprison its many millions of victims.
10. The term _____________________ refers to a camp in which people are detained or
confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and
imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.
11. Three purposes of the concentration camps included _____________________,
_____________________________, and __________________________________.
12. Often, the ___________ (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons -- the elite guard of the
Nazi party) guarded the concentration camps.

13. Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Nazis opened
forced-labor camps where thousands of prisoners died from _________________,
________________________, and __________________.
14. In some concentration camps, Nazi doctors performed _______________________
on prisoners.
15. The genocide or mass destruction of Jews was also referred to as the
“_____________________ ________________________.”
16. _________________________ was the country with the largest Jewish population;
therefore the _______________________camps were established there by the Nazis.
17. The Nazis constructed ____________________ (rooms that filled with poison gas to
kill those inside) to increase killing efficiency and to make the process more
impersonal for the perpetrators.
18. During the height of deportations to the Birkenau extermination camp, up to
____________________ Jews were gassed there each day.
19. The SS considered the killing centers top secret. To obliterate all traces of gassing
operations, special prisoner units (the Sonderkommandos) were forced to
________________________________________________________. The grounds
of some killing centers were re-landscaped or camouflaged to disguise the murder of
millions.
20. The Nazis had a classification system for prisoners in the concentration camps. Jews
in the camps were identified by a _______________________ sewn onto their prison
uniforms, a perversion of the Jewish Star of David symbol. Criminals were marked
with_________________________, political prisoners with _________, "asocials"
(including Roma, nonconformists, vagrants, and other groups) with ____________.
Homosexuals were identified with ___________________ and Jehovah's Witnesses
with _____________ ones. Non-German prisoners were identified by the first letter
of the German name for their home country, which was sewn onto their badge.
21. Find and print three personal accounts from Holocaust survivors (print to printer h-
206).
22. This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day was on _____________________________
and the theme was _________________________________________.
23. What are two examples of how people are preventing genocide today?