Question 1: What issues in Germany and the World led to Hitler coming to power?
Adolf Hitler took advantage of a worldwide economic depression that had hit Germany specially hard and since Germans lacked confidence because of their humiliation in World War I and also because millions of people were out of work, they followed the Nazi Party.
Question 2: Describe Kristallnacht and the Nuremburg Laws.
Kristallnacht is a program launched by Joseph Goebbels with the excuse of a Jewish man that had killed a secretary because of a problem with the German Embassy in Paris and his family, which was expulsed. The program is against German Jews, and this traduces to "The Night of Broken Glass". The Nuremburg Laws were promulgated by Adolf Hitler and these were legal actions against Germany's Jews.
Question 3: Pick a survivor and sum their story in 2 paragraphs.
Isak Borenstein. He had 3 brothers and 3 sisters and lived in a liverstock farm. He lived in Poland, and when the Germans he ran away to Russia and joined Russia's army, where he changed his Jews name Borentein to Broniewsky which was a Polish name. He was captured by the enemy laut escaped. He started working in a hospital until a friend got drunk and talked to much, so he arrested and taken to the prison of Dnepropetrovsk. He was kept very ill in a confined space because a man thought he looked jews, where a girl named Ira Pogorelskaja took care of him until they took her out of jail and he never saw her again. He searched for her but never found her.
He was tortured but he never revealed he was Jew, so they started believing he wasn't, so he was put in a cell where normal soldiers are put and almost got discovered. He was sent to Mauthausen where he got sick and a Pole recognized him as Jew and helped him go away. He had to do a lot of unfair work. He escaped and found sugar, then fed himself water and sugar for three days.
Question 4: Who was targeted during the Holocaust?
Jews, Roman (Gypsies), Slavic, institutionalized people with disabilities, and Homosexuals.
Question 5: Why do you think that/those groups were targeted?
They believe these groups as impure and that they didn't deserve to live. They also didn't fit in the Nazi's perception of social norms. They classified Jews as priority enemy.
Question 6: Summarize Heinrich Himmler's role in the Holocaust?
He was a military commander and a leader of the Nazi Party from 1929-1945. He was the second most powerful man in Germany during the Holocaust. He was in charged of the police and fortified the Holocaust. He was Hitler's second hand and Hitler liked him because his ideas where mostly sucess.
Question 7: Describe the life of a person that was contained in one of this concentration camps. Using detail describe what daily life was for them.
Helen Rappaport: She had a twin sister named Pearl. When they where 23 they were taken to Auschwitz. They where in a experiment camp. They worked in the gas chambers.
Question 8: What does C.A.N.D.L.E.S stand for? Who was Mengele and what was he known for?
C.A.N.D.L.E.S: Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors. It is a museum was dedicate for the twins that died and survived the Holocaust. Mengele was the doctor in change of the concentration camp. He supervised their experiments.
Question 9: Explain and summarize what Einsatzgruppen were.
Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units): were squads conformed of German SS and police personnel one of their tasks was to murder their political or racial enemies, these victims where the Jewish, Gypsies, Officials of Soviet State and also thousands of residents of institutions for the physically or mentally disabled. These squads received support from the Germany army, like supplies, transportation and housing. The most common form of killing was shooting, until 1942 when Heinrich Himmler suggested other killing methods, like the gas van.
Question 10: Explore the Holocaust in internet and report what you learned.
There was a lot of influence from the Holocaust to today's generation. Some of this was: Enormous technological process, the creation of United Nations, Atomic Bombs developed and Electronic and computers where developed.
2 Paragraphs Interesting Facts:
How did the perpetrators know who was Jewish?
Jews were identified through Jewish community membership lists, identity papers, captured documents, and intelligence networks.
Was Hitler solely responsible for the Holocaust?
No, Hitler don´t make the Holocaust happen, the German government, military, and Nazi Party officials were planning to persecuting and murdering the European Jews.
Wasn´t one of Hitler´s relatives Jewish?
There are rumors about Hitler´s ancestry. The identity of Hitler´s paternal grandfather remains unknown, to suggest that the unknown grandfather was Jewish.
Adolf Hitler took advantage of a worldwide economic depression that had hit Germany specially hard and since Germans lacked confidence because of their humiliation in World War I and also because millions of people were out of work, they followed the Nazi Party.
Question 2: Describe Kristallnacht and the Nuremburg Laws.
Kristallnacht is a program launched by Joseph Goebbels with the excuse of a Jewish man that had killed a secretary because of a problem with the German Embassy in Paris and his family, which was expulsed. The program is against German Jews, and this traduces to "The Night of Broken Glass". The Nuremburg Laws were promulgated by Adolf Hitler and these were legal actions against Germany's Jews.
Question 3: Pick a survivor and sum their story in 2 paragraphs.
Isak Borenstein. He had 3 brothers and 3 sisters and lived in a liverstock farm. He lived in Poland, and when the Germans he ran away to Russia and joined Russia's army, where he changed his Jews name Borentein to Broniewsky which was a Polish name. He was captured by the enemy laut escaped. He started working in a hospital until a friend got drunk and talked to much, so he arrested and taken to the prison of Dnepropetrovsk. He was kept very ill in a confined space because a man thought he looked jews, where a girl named Ira Pogorelskaja took care of him until they took her out of jail and he never saw her again. He searched for her but never found her.
He was tortured but he never revealed he was Jew, so they started believing he wasn't, so he was put in a cell where normal soldiers are put and almost got discovered. He was sent to Mauthausen where he got sick and a Pole recognized him as Jew and helped him go away. He had to do a lot of unfair work. He escaped and found sugar, then fed himself water and sugar for three days.
Question 4: Who was targeted during the Holocaust?
Jews, Roman (Gypsies), Slavic, institutionalized people with disabilities, and Homosexuals.
Question 5: Why do you think that/those groups were targeted?
They believe these groups as impure and that they didn't deserve to live. They also didn't fit in the Nazi's perception of social norms. They classified Jews as priority enemy.
Question 6: Summarize Heinrich Himmler's role in the Holocaust?
He was a military commander and a leader of the Nazi Party from 1929-1945. He was the second most powerful man in Germany during the Holocaust. He was in charged of the police and fortified the Holocaust. He was Hitler's second hand and Hitler liked him because his ideas where mostly sucess.
Question 7: Describe the life of a person that was contained in one of this concentration camps. Using detail describe what daily life was for them.
Helen Rappaport: She had a twin sister named Pearl. When they where 23 they were taken to Auschwitz. They where in a experiment camp. They worked in the gas chambers.
Question 8: What does C.A.N.D.L.E.S stand for? Who was Mengele and what was he known for?
C.A.N.D.L.E.S: Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors. It is a museum was dedicate for the twins that died and survived the Holocaust. Mengele was the doctor in change of the concentration camp. He supervised their experiments.
Question 9: Explain and summarize what Einsatzgruppen were.
Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units): were squads conformed of German SS and police personnel one of their tasks was to murder their political or racial enemies, these victims where the Jewish, Gypsies, Officials of Soviet State and also thousands of residents of institutions for the physically or mentally disabled. These squads received support from the Germany army, like supplies, transportation and housing. The most common form of killing was shooting, until 1942 when Heinrich Himmler suggested other killing methods, like the gas van.
Question 10: Explore the Holocaust in internet and report what you learned.
There was a lot of influence from the Holocaust to today's generation. Some of this was: Enormous technological process, the creation of United Nations, Atomic Bombs developed and Electronic and computers where developed.
2 Paragraphs Interesting Facts:
How did the perpetrators know who was Jewish?
Jews were identified through Jewish community membership lists, identity papers, captured documents, and intelligence networks.
Was Hitler solely responsible for the Holocaust?
No, Hitler don´t make the Holocaust happen, the German government, military, and Nazi Party officials were planning to persecuting and murdering the European Jews.
Wasn´t one of Hitler´s relatives Jewish?
There are rumors about Hitler´s ancestry. The identity of Hitler´s paternal grandfather remains unknown, to suggest that the unknown grandfather was Jewish.