History Holocaust Quiz

Who are the Partisans?

- A group of resistance fighters mainly operating in the forests and rural areas of Eastern Europe

- Armed resisters

- Help Jews escape ghettos and camps

What actions did Partisans take?

- Sabotaging railroads, bridges, and trains full of weapons

- Attacking German soldiers and supply lines

- Damage the death camps

What else did Partisans do?

- Destroying communication lines and infrastructure

- Gathering intelligence / secret info for Allied forces

Treblinka

- A camp built almost exclusively for extermination

- Small compared to Auschwitz, but built for efficiency

- Between July 1942 and October 1943, approximately 870,000 to 925,000 Jews were murdered

Treblinka Uprising

- By 1943, prisoners assigned to labor details had been secretly organizing

- Planned an uprising

- On August 2, 1943, around 700 prisoners broke through the perimeter and attempted an escape

Treblinka Uprising Outcome

- Many were shot and killed or captured

- Around 200 managed to escape

Who is Josef Mengele?

- Trained physician with a background in racial anthropology

- Conducted selections on the arrival ramp

- Carried out medical experiments, especially on twins

What did Josef Mengele do?

- Attempted to advance racial and genetic theories supported by Nazi ideology

- His actions were not required for basic functioning of the camp

- Escaped Europe, lived in South America under false identities, died in Brazil in 1979 and was never tried

What does Liquidation mean in the Context of the Holocaust?

The process of cleaning out and destroying ghettos, deporting prisoners to camps

Best explains how phrenology influenced Nazi racial laws in Germany?

It promoted the idea that one's physical features and racial identity could determine the abilities and value to society