The Horrors of the Holocaust

Directions: Use the Student Section of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website to complete the following webquest.

Antisemitism

1.  Define antisemitism:
2. What are pogroms?
3. What did Hitler’s book Mein Kampf say about Jews in Germany?

Dictatorship and the Third Reich

1. What is the Third Reich and how did it affect the German people
2. Under the policy of “coordination” what things in Germany came under Nazi control?
3. Who were “racially inferior” to German race and what was their fate according to the Nazi regime?

Persecution and Murder of Jews

1. What was the “Final Solution”?

ID Cards

From the ID Card section of the Holocaust Encyclopedia, choose one person to answer the following questions:

1. What is the name of your person?
2. Where did they live during the war?
3.  About how old was your person during the war?
4. How did the war affect their life?
5. What was their fate after the war?