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General Knowledge Quiz on the Holocaust taken from Holocaust General Facts Quiz online
Q.1)
When did the Holocaust begin?
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B.
C.
D.
Q.2)
Why were young children targeted by the Nazi's to be murdered?
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B.
C.
D.
Q.3)
Auschwitz, Birkenau, Mohowitz (Correct )
Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau
Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzek
Auschwitz, Dachau, Chelmno
What was constructed during the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, in which the Nazis
would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe?
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B.
C.
D.
Q.6)
Cattle wagon (Correct)
Train
Bus
Ship
The Auschwitz complex included what three large camps?
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B.
C.
D.
Q.5)
They posed a threat because if they lived, they would retaliate.
They posed a threat because if they lived, they would grow up to be a
parent of a new generation of Jews. (Correct )
They were easy to get a hold of.
They posed a threat because they hated Jews and old Jews
The majority of people who were deported to labor and death camps were transported by what?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Q.4)
January 1933 (Correct)
January 1934
January 1930
January 1932
"Conference Solution"
"Final Solution" (Correct)
"Constructed Solution"
"Last Solution"
On December ___, 1942 the Western Allies publicly denounced the massacre of the Jewish people,
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but they failed to do anything about it.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Q.7)
_____________ was the Nazi minister of propaganda and prior to 1933, head of the Nazi
organization in Berlin.
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B.
C.
D.
Q.8)
Nuremberg, 1935 (Correct)
Nuremberg, 1936
Nuremberg-state, 1936
Nuremberg-city, 1935
On November, 1938 _______ enacted the Regulations Against Jews' possession of Weapons' which
made it illegal for Jews to carry firearms or other weapons.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Q.11)
2/3 (Correct)
1/3
1/2
1/4
Hitler introduced the _______ laws in ______ which made it illegal for Germans to marry or
have sex with Jews.
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B.
C.
D.
Q.10)
Wilhem Frick
Lutz Graf Schwerin
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Goebbels (Correct)
Of the nine million Jews, who lived in Europe before the Holocaust, an estimate of ___ were murdered.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Q.9)
21
17 (Correct )
16
20
Poland
Germany (Correct)
Spain
Italy
Muselmann was a slang word for concentration camp victims who...
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A.
B.
C.
D.
Q.12)
What was the first concentration camp?
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B.
C.
D.
Q.13)
1945 (Correct)
1947
1845
1846
The first mass gassing of Jews took place in the ________ extermination camp.
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B.
C.
D.
Q.16)
death penalty
selektion or selection (Correct)
The dying process
death camp
When Soviet troops entered Birkenau on January 18, _____ they found 358,000 men’s suits,
837,000 women outfits, and 15,400 pounds of human hair packed into paper bags.
The Nazis were saving them in warehouse for future use, the hair for processing of felt and thread.
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B.
C.
D.
Q.15)
Dachau (Correct)
Auschwitz
Birkeau
Daachau
Pregnant women, small children, the sick or handicapped, and elderly were immediately
condemned to death by what process?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Q.14)
gave up on any hope of survival. (Correct)
gave up on Hitler.
gave up on the Final Solution.
gave up on the being deported.
Egypt
Chelmno (Correct)
Auschwitz
Roma
Between ________and _____ approximately 5,000 convicted Nazi war criminals were executed
and 10,000 were imprisoned.
A.
B.
1945, 1986
1945, 1985 (Correct)
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C.
D.
Q.17)
In August ____________, the Allied powers created the International War crimes Tribunal.
Never before in history had the losers of a nation at war been held to answer for their crimes before
an international court.
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B.
C.
D.
Q.18)
1945, 1987
1945, 1988
1946
1945 (Correct)
1845
1846
After __________, the Allies grappled with whether to hold only the Nazi leaders accountable for the
Holocaust or the whole German nation.
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B.
C.
D.
Q.19)
WWI
WWII (Correct)
the gassing
the bombing
On ______, Holocaust Rememberance Day, sirens all over Israel sound at 10 am for 2 minutes.
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B.
C.
D.
Yom Hashoah (Correct)
Maundy Thursday
Summer Solsticed
All Saints Day
Q.20) General _____________, ordered every citizen of the German town of Gotha to tour the concentration
camp Ohrduf, to know who they were fighting against.
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B.
C.
D.
Washington
Patton
Lee
Eisenhower (Correct)
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