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Badges and Other Symbols of the Holocaust

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Introduction:
"This quiz asks you to assume to role of a recent deportee to a concentration camp and interpret your surroundings based on your knowledge of Holocaust symbolism."


1. It is 1943. You have been transported by railway freight car to a concentration camp near your native Krakow. As you get off the train, you see a sign above the main gate reading "Arbeit Macht Frei". What does this sign literally mean?
    Work makes one free
    Work makes wealth
    Germany is free
    Enter freely


2. You are taken to a building where you are given a brief medical examination. After providing your personal information, you are tattooed on your left forearm with a five-digit number. What camp must you be at to receive this treatment?
    Chelmno
    Jasenovac
    Treblinka
    Auschwitz


3. You are interned with many other prisoners, each wearing a characteristic striped uniform. When you report to work at the nearby synthetic rubber plant, you see many people with a large yellow six-pointed star on their left breast. How have the SS identified these people?
    As Communists
    As Jews
    As Liberals
    All workers in the major camps wore this star; there is no special significance


4. You see one prisoner wearing a red triangle instead of a yellow star. What is the significance of this?
    The prisoner has been singled out for his politics
    The prisoner is a Jehovah's Witness
    The prisoner is a collaborator with the camp guards
    The prisoner has been specially identified as a Rabbi


5. You see one group of prisoners wearing purple triangles. They seem very anxious to speak with other prisoners, even when harshly disciplined for such activities by the SS. A fellow prisoner nudges you, saying "They could all get out if they wanted to!" Why are these prisoners here?
    They are willing martyrs in solidarity with the Jews
    They are Jehovah's Witnesses
    They are spies for the SS
    They are alcoholics


6. You see other prisoners wearing a blue triangle. These prisoners seem different from other prisoners, however, in that they appear to speak a plethora of different languages. You hear what sounds like French, Spanish, English, or Portugese; what German you do hear is halting and broken. What does the blue triangle designate?
    They are Jehovah's Witnesses
    They are "mental defectives"
    They are Liberals
    They are suspect immigrants


7. You also see prisoners wearing green triangles. You further notice that they are shunned even by other prisoners. Who would be assigned a green triangle?
    A habitual criminal
    A saboteur
    A radical environmentalist
    A homosexual


8. In one section of the camp, you see a group, separate from the others, wearing mostly black (and occasionally green) triangles. This is probably the Gypsy section of camp.
    True
    False


9. On occasion, you see male German prisoners wearing pink triangles. What does this triangle represent?
    Homosexuality
    Anti-Nazi speech
    Communism
    Academic profession


10. As you lay down in your bunk after your day in the camp, you cannot help but reflect on the irony of the slogan you saw the rank and file German soldiers wear before you were sent here. Proudly emblazoned on their belt buckles was the motto "Gott mit Uns" - "G-d is with us".
    True
    False


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