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1. All of these children have one thing in common, can you figure out what it is?    All children share the Jewish religion and escaped the SS
2. What do you wonder? How does the SS have the stomach to kill all of these innocent people?

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1. When and where was Elie Wiesel born? Romania, he was born on September 30, 1928
2. How old was Elie when he was deported to Auschwitz? 15
3. Which of his family members perished? Which survived? He was the only one that survived
4. Why did Elie write his memoir, Night? To teach others about it.
5. What are two things you learned about Elie Wiesel’s life after the Holocaust? He fought for Israel and he was always interested in others
6. When did Elie Wiesel pass away? July, 2, 2016

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Section Two: How was Hitler so successful?

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Section Two: How was Hitler so successful?

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1. When he was only 3 years old, with what did Adolf Hitler become obsessed? German Nationalism
2. Look up “anti-semitism.” What does this mean? hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
3. What did Adolf’s father wish Adolf would grow up to become? Be part of the Austrian government
4. What happened to Hitler’s “beer hall” plan? What was the result of this plan? The government toppled What happened to Hitler? Charged with treason
5. What book did Hitler write? My Struggle
6. What position was Hitler appointed to on January 30, 1933? President
7. What happened to those who opposed the Nazi party? Imprisonment
8. Why do you think people followed Hitler and joined the Nazi party? people feared him so they did it so they wouldn't be punished.

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1. What does SS stand for? Schutzstaffel
2. What was their job? special guard for Hitler.
3. Who was the Gestapo? non-uniformed police, How did they treat those that refused to obey laws? Ruthless and cruel
4. What are some ways the Gestapo, SA, and SS officers would help Hitler? looking for Hitler's enemies, kill people, create work camps.

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1. What were prisoners required to wear on their jackets? color-coded triangles. Why? So the officers can know their background.
2. What did the different colors of the triangles mean? Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists wore red, criminals wore green. Gypsies wore black, Jehovah's Witnesses wore purple, and homosexuals pink.
3. What happened to several of the gypsies? They became inmates and got killed or sent to a work camp
4. How did many of the Jehovah’s witnesses and homosexuals die? exhaustion, disease, starvation, and brutal treatment.

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1. What are ghettos? Jewish prisons. Why were they sealed away from the rest of the city? so they can control the Jews.
2. What happened to those who refused to pack up and leave? Shot immediately
3. Why did the Nazis change the type of fencing used to isolate the ghettos? To many people could escape.
4. How did Jews identify themselves in the ghettos? Star of David and paper ID
5. What happened if you didn’t have your identification on you? killed on spot
6. How were the living conditions? unsanitary. What are some things these ghettos didn’t have? Electricity, running water, proper sewage, medical care, food.
7. What types of jobs did Nazis force Jews to perform? Factory work
8. What was not uncommon to see in the ghetto? homeless children
9. What does “liquidate” mean? removing Jews from ghetto and placing them in work camps. What types of people did the Nazis want? people that were able to work. Who was usually liquidated? Healthy people
10. What was the only thing Jews were told when being liquidated? suit cases. Why were they told this? So they would think they ween't about to die.

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Section Six: Perfecting the art of murder

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Section Six: Perfecting the art of murder

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1. What does the term “euthanasia” mean? A "nice way" of saying something unpleasant
2. How did Nazis kill civilians prior to experimenting with gas? mass shootings
3. What were the gas vans? sealed trucks with engine exhaust
4. Give two reasons to explain why the Nazis chose to experiment with gas. It was less money and fatigue and mental anguish was caused by all the shooting
5. In 1942, explain the process the Nazis used to kill their victims at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Victims got of cattle cars, they would then be "disinfected" in "showers" and crammed as many people in the chamber as possible, and then suffocated by the gas.
6. The experiments at Auschwitz proved to be the most efficient.  What method was used at Auschwitz? Zyklon B. How many Jews were the Nazis able to kill each day? 6,000
7. What other concentration camps had these gas chambers? Stutthof, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbruck had these chambers

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1. Who is the Angel of Death? Josef Mengele
2. How did Mengele come to work at Auschwitz? He volunteered.
3. Give two examples of how Mengele decided who was sent to the gas chambers. If the child could not reach the line and people who were selected to work.
4. List 3 experiments Mengele performed with twins. Drawing blood, inject chloroform into their hearts, and sewn twins together.
5. Why can we never know the extent of his gruesome work? The records were destroyed.
6. Of the twins interviewed after the war, how did they recall the way Mengele treated them?  Mengele was gentle and affable man who befriended them.
7. To where did Mengele escape once the war ended? Argentina.  Was he ever apprehended for his actions? No
8. What do you think of Mengele, and why do you think he performed such sadistic experiments? I think he was an awful man and had no right to o it and I think he did it because he had issues of his on whether it be mental or physical,

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1. Where is Auschwitz located? South Poland
2. Why was Auschwitz a perfect place to become the largest killing site known in history? It had the largest rail road
3. What did their living quarters look like? bare, dark, and the beds were wood.  How did they sleep? 1000 in one building but 8 per bed
4. How many buildings were at this camp? 400
5. What type of fence enclosed Auschwitz? Electric. What would people do once they realized their fate at Auschwitz? committed suicide on the wire
6. What happened to crematoria 2 and 3? They blew it up with dynamite. Why did the SS do this? To conceal the criminal activities at the camp
7. How many people died at Auschwitz? 1.5 million people