Place your questions and answers here. Put them in the section with your name.Example: "What was the Polish name for Auschwitz? Oswiecim."

Agbi

(1) How did the British and American armies respond upon learning about Auschwitz in the spring of 1944?
They chose not to bomb the rail ways and gas chambers.

(2) What is Kristallnacht? When and where did it take place?
It took place on November 9-10 in 1938. Nazis attack synagogues and Jewish owed businesses destroying everything.

(3) Name Four techniques used in the camp for killing Jews?
Death by Firing Squad
Carbon Monoxide
Hell Vans
Zyklon B
Massive Gas Chambers and Crematoria

(4) Was Thomas Blatt a victim or a perpetrator?
Victim

(5) true or false Auschwitz is the largest mass murder in the history of the world?
True.

(6) True false Nazis wanted France to turn over all its Jews?
True

(7) About how many Jews were sent to Auschwitz from all over Europe during 1942?
About 200,000

(8) True or False Rudolf Hoss did not try to cover up what happened in Auschwitz?
False

Anderson

Auschwitz Test

1. In what year did Great Britain issues the Balfour Declaration?
2. What did the Balfour Declaration support?
3. In What Year did the Treaty of Versailles take place?
4. "They arrested people simply because they were born Jewish—That French people should do that is still beyond me, even 60 years later." Who said this quote?
5. By what year did Auschwitz have several subcamps?
6. Which German Commandant Suggested that the Jews should be killed with "showers of carbon monoxide while bathing, as was done with mental patients in some places in the Reich?"
7. In what year was Adolf Hitler’s Mien Kampf Written?
7a. Where did Hitler Write Mien Kampf?
8. How long did Auschwitz last?

Auschwitz Key

1. 1917
2. The establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
3. 1919
4. Michael Muller.
5. 1943
6. Adolf Eichmann.
7. 1923
7a. In Prison
8. 1940-1945

Athayde

Ayala

1. When was Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany?
2. Name two of the five Concentration camps in Germany
3. Who said “They arrested people simply because they were born Jewish—That French people should do that is still beyond me, even 60 years later.”
4. True or False: Auschwitz was located in a small German town near Berlin
5. True or False: Auschwitz was always a death camp
6. Who liberated the people in Auschwitz on January 27, 1945
7. In what year does Germany and Poland sign a nonaggression treaty?
8. How does Hitler defy the League of nations
Answer Key:
1. 1933
2. Bergen Belsen, Dora Mittelbau, Buchenwald, Dachau, Sachsenhausen
3. Michel Muller
4. False
5. False
6. Soviets
7. 1934
8. He brings back the draft

Evangelakos

1. What were the years of Auschwitz's operation?

(1940-1945)
2. Approximately how many people were gassed to death at Auschwitz, and what percent of them were Jews?

(1.1 million/90%)
3. What was the date of Auschwitz's liberation and what nation was it liberated by?

(January 27, 1945)
4. What day did Adolf Hitler commit suicide?

(April 30, 1945)
5. What was the area where valuables of the prisoners were kept and sorted called?

(Canada)
6. What was the name of the scientist who experimented on twins?

(Mangele)
7. Where is it located?

(Southern Poland)
8. What is the difference between death camps and concentration camps?

(death camp-killing factory concentration camp-forced labor camps)


Francis

Frank

Gonzalez

Regester:


Michael Regester
Ms. Barnes
History 9C
Monday, May 12, 2008

Auschwitz Quiz
Multiple Choice:
1. Although the Nazis wanted the French to turn over all Jews, the French agreed at first to round up only Jews that
a. Had Children
b. Had Foreign Citizenship
c. Had fled the Nazis in other countries
d. Had relations with “pure Germans”
2. The Birkenau camp wasn't initially designed to take Jews, but
a. Polish prisoners of war
b. Gypsies
c. Gays
d. Russian prisoners of war


Fill in the blank:
1. Auschwitz I, as the camp came to be called, was built primarily to confine and oppress the whom the Nazis considered to be a threat to their occupation.
2. In October of 1941, Chief Karl Bischoff and SS architect Fritz Etrl developed a camp a mile and a half away from
, called _.

True and False:
1.
_ Germany invaded the Soviet Union of June 23, 1941.
2. _ Germans had no input in the Treaty of Versailles that they were given in 1919

Short Answers:
1. What years did Auschwitz operate?



2. Why and when did Hitler invade Poland?


Answer Key:
• Multiple Choice: 1- B, 2- D
• Fill in the blank: 1- Polish, 2- Auschwitz/Birkenau
• True and False: 1- False, 2- True
• Short Answers: 1- (1940- 1945), 2- For propaganda / September 1, 1939




Rifkin

Schiltkamp

Sotomayor


Jeancarlo Sotomayor


Auschwitz Quiz



1. Q: How many death camps at Auschwitz were there? Name them?

A: Auschwitz I, Birkenau, and Buna.


2. Q: On May _, construction began on Auschwitz I, originally intended to house political prisoners.

A: 1940


3. Q: Who were the first prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz?

A: Members of the Polish resistance and intelligentsia.


4. Q: What sort of plant were the prisoners forced to work in as slave labor in Auschwitz?

A: A synthetic rubber plant.


5. Q: T/F: The Soviet Union invaded Germany. Soviet Mobile killing units follow the invaders to kill Jews and German officers. By the fall of 1943, they will have killed 1.5 million Jews.

A: False


6. Q: How were the first Auschwitz victims killed, and who were they?

A: The first Auschwitz victims, mostly Russian prisoners of war, are killed using Zyklon B gas.


7. Q: When was the Final Solution discussed between the Nazi Officials? What was it?

A: At the Wannsee Conference, Nazi officials discussed the Final Solution, a plan to kill all European Jews as well as Soviet prisoners of war and Gypsies.


8. Q: When was Auschwitz liberated? How many prisoners remain?

A: Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. Only a few thousand prisoners remain.