Holocaust Trivia

1. In which country was Nelly Adler born?

From Quiz Children of the Holocaust

Answer: Belgium

The youngest of three daughters, Nelly was born into a Jewish family on February 28th, 1930, in Liège, Belgium. The family had previously been living in Czechoslovakia. In 1940, the Nazis invaded Belgium. Two years later, Nelly and her sisters were forced out of school due to them being Jewish. Catholic friends helped the family get false papers and they moved into a house in a nearby village. Sometime in early 1944, whilst Nelly's father was in hospital due to illness, the family were found by the Nazis and arrested. They were sent to Auschwitz where Nelly, aged 13, was gassed on May 21st, 1944.

From Quiz Arbeit Macht Frei: "Work Sets You Free"

Answer: 1940

Auschwitz was originally built to hold Polish political prisoners, the first of whom arrived at the camp on June 14th, 1940. The first mass extermination occurred in September 1941 as an 'experiment'.

From Quiz After the Discovery of "The Secret Annex"

Answer: It was a crime to hide from the SS

In countries under Nazi rule it was a crime to hide from the SS. In the camp they were sent to afterwards the punishment for hiding from the Nazis continued. They were sent to the punishment block, where they had to do hard labor.

From Quiz Who Were The Righteous Among The Nations?

Answer: to create a memorial so that victims' names would be remembered

The name "Yad Vashem" is taken from Isaiah 56:5 - "Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name (Hebrew: Yad Vashem) better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off". This name was selected to represent the Jewish victims of Holocaust who had no family members to carry on their name after death. The Yad Vashem building complex contains the Holocaust History Museum and memorial sites such as the Children's Memorial, the Hall of Remembrance, and The Museum of Holocaust Art, among its many key points of interest. Yad Vashem honors those non-Jews (Gentiles) who saved, assisted or rescued Jews during the Holocaust, in spite of grave danger to themselves. They are recognized by the Jewish people as being the "Righteous Among the Nations".

From Quiz Infamous Men of the Holocaust

Answer: Heinrich Himmler

Himmler was Head of the SS (1929-1945). In 1936 he also became Head of the German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei) and later also the Minister of the Interior. He supervised all of the internal and external security forces, which included the Gestapo. With the assistance of Heydrich and others he expanded his personal empire in Nazi Germany to the point where it constituted a large and influential terror lobby.

From Quiz Other WWII War Criminals

Answer: the Boger swing

Wilhelm Boger was the inventor of the notorious Boger swing which was used to torture helpless inmates at Auschwitz. The device suspended a prisoner by the crook of his knees, while Boger beat the inmate with a crowbar. He died in prison in 1977.

From Quiz Prelude to the Holocaust: Basics

Answer: 30 January 1933

Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg and soon life began to get difficult for Jews in Germany. (6 November 1932 was the date of the last free Reichstag elections in the Weimar Republic. The NSDAP obtained 33% of the vote, down from 37% in July 1932, but were still the largest party. 2 August 1934 is the date of Hindenburg's death, whereupon Hitler proclaimed himself Führer).

From Quiz The Holocaust: Basics

Answer: The attempt by the Nazis in 1941-45 to kill all Jews in areas under their control

The term came into widespread use in this sense as a proper noun (with an upper-case H) in the late 1970s. Especially in the US the term is sometimes used popularly for *all* acts of illegal mass killing committed by the Nazis. The term was adopted specifically in order to replace earlier expressions, such as the cumbersome 'Nazi genocide of the Jews' and the Nazis' own term 'The Final Solution (of the Jewish Question)'. Obviously, historians are well aware that there were many other groups that the Nazis subjected to mass murder on the basis of group identity.

From Quiz Hitler & the Third Reich: IX - The Camps

Answer: Moringen.

Moringen is near Northeim, Lower Saxony. The camp was a women's only concentration camp from 1933 until 1938. It held Jews, Communists, Jehovah Witnesses and other 'undesirables'. In 1940 it reopened as a concentration camp for young persons. Other women's camps were to open in later years, including Lichtenburg, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück. Ravensbrück was opened in 1939. Horrific medical experiments were performed on some of the female inmates.

From Quiz The Holocaust I

Answer: The Final Solution

The Final Solution is, of course, short for the Nazis' own term - the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (German - "Endlösung der Judenfrage"). The term "the Holocaust" in this specific sense only gained widespread acceptance c. 1978 onwards after the showing of the TV miniseries of the same title. Some people object to the term on account of its connotations of "whole burnt sacrifice" and instead call it the "Shoah" (Hebrew for "catastrophe").

From Quiz Voyage of the St Louis

Answer: The Night of Broken Glass ('Kristallnacht')

The Night of Broken Glass ('Kristallnacht') was a co-ordinated pogrom on the night of 9-10 November 1938. Stormtroopers smashed every synagogue in Germany and Austria, several Jewish shops and other businesses and many homes of Jews the length of breadth of Germany and Austria (and in the Sudetenland). It continued for some days afterwards. Jewish women were raped with impunity, despite Nazi laws against sexual intercourse between Germans and Jews. An estimated 400 Jews were murdered or driven to suicide. About 30,000 were sent to concentration camps and by Christmas of 1938 2,000 of these were dead. The pogrom represented a sudden and drastic intensification of the antisemitic actions by the Nazis. To cap it all, the Jewish community in Germany had to pay for the cost of the damage done to their own property by the Nazis.

From Quiz The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw

Answer: The Middle Ages

In 1267 the Church Council of Wroclaw (Breslau) passed a law that provided for the separation of Jewish and Christian communities. This separation began in the city of Gnessen, which was the see of the oldest Polish diocese. After this other Polish cities began to follow the same procedure. Although the church did not really have the authority to enforce such a law, it was able to circulate enough lies and rumors about the Jews to cause rampant anti-Semitism. Jews were only able to prosper in Poland until the 1640s because of a government decree issued by Prince Boleslaw of Kalisz defining their rights.

From Quiz "Es ist vorbei"- Liberation of the Camps, Part 2

Answer: Gross-Rosen

125,000 prisoners passed through the gates of Gross-Rosen starting in the Summer of 1940, when it was a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen. It became an independent camp on May 1, 1941. As with many other camps, it had several satellites, and forced labor through mining granite was its main output. Along with Natzweiler-Struthof, it served as a camp for those people who were rounded up as part of Hitler's "Nacht und Nebel" decree. ("Night and Fog" decree). These particular prisoners normally did not survive any longer than two months within the camp. When the Red Army approached, the prisoners were forced to march westwards. Any who were too weak to walk were killed, as well as those who faltered along the way. Gross-Rosen claimed the lives of over 40,000 human beings by the time it was liberated. Thankfully, the satellite camp of Bruennlitz was a safe haven for the over 1,100 people saved by Schindler.

From Quiz "Freiheit!" The Liberation of the Camps Part I

Answer: Majdanek

The Red Army reached the Majdanek camp long after the Germans had taken most of the remaining prisoners on a Death March towards the West on April 1, 1944, yet the speed of the Red Army's advance halted the Nazis' plans to cover their tracks, and only the buidlings housing the crematoria were destroyed. The Soviets found around 500 prisoners who had managed to hide from the Nazis, as well as mounds upon mounds of bones and shoes. Located in the city of Lublin itself, around 300,000 people passed through the camp, and of these about 78,000 were murdered. In October of 2005, four former prisoners took archaeologists to the site of the camp, where they found over 50 personal items that had been buried by inmates, including watches and wedding rings.

From Quiz Wannsee Protocol

Answer: January 20, 1942

The meeting took place just outside Berlin at Wannsee, a lakeside community, in the villa Marlier. The home had been bought by the SS in 1940, from Friedrich Minoux, a coal financier who had been arrested for embezzlement. The home is now a museum, known as the "Memorial and Educational Site House of the Wannsee Conference". It opened in 1992, on the 50th anniversary of the conference.

From Quiz Auschwitz

Answer: 3

Auschwitz-Birkenau had three main sites: Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II (Birkenau) and Auschwitz III (Monowitz).

From Quiz Shame! The United States and the Jews

Answer: Charles Coughlin

Coughlin was a popular radio broadcaster in the 30s. He was very vocal about his anti-Jewish feelings, and developed a large following. After one live broadcast in New York City, people left the building and marched down the street chanting "Send the Jews back where they came from in leaky boats."

From Quiz Badges and Other Symbols of the Holocaust

Answer: Work sets you free

This is the sign above the gate of Auschwitz I. Since Auschwitz proper served as a dispatch center for various forced work camps all over Nazi territory, including the synthetic rubber plant at nearby Auschwitz III, the promise of freedom or at least relief in exchange for hard work was an important psychological ploy.

From Quiz The Ustasa : The Forgotten Villains

Answer: Insurrection

The Ustasa felt insurrection was the only means in which to "cleanse" or purge their nation of all who did not share in the Catholic faith.

From Quiz The Genocide of the Holocaust

Answer: Schindler & Oskar Schindler & Oscar Schindler

Oskar Schindler was declared a 'Righteous Gentile' by the Israelis. This was a Jewish honour bestowed on Gentiles, based on Jewish tradition. Oskar died in 1974 in Hildesheim.

From Quiz Auschwitz

Answer: 1940

It was originally intended as a large concentration camp, primarily for members of the Polish resistance and intelligentsia. In 1941-42 it was expanded to take Soviet prisoners of war and for the "Final Solution".

From Quiz "The Cage" by Ruth Minsky Sender

Answer: Nancy

Ruth and her husband have four children, Laibele (Louis), Avromele, Chaim (Harvey), and Nacha (Nancy).

From Quiz Women of the Holocaust

Answer: Dorothy Thompson

In the earlier days of Hitler's regime, few countries would listen to the cries for help from anti-Nazi groups. Even in the United States, immigration was strictly limited, even for Jewish refugees trying to escape from Germany.

From Quiz WW II Concentration Camps

Answer: Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz was established in May, 1940 and was divided into three major camps and at one time had a further 45 sub-camps. The three main camps were liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945.

From Quiz The Holocaust

Answer: Enabling Act

The first law Hitler passed using the Enabling Act was to remove nearly all Jewish people from the Civil Service (and the public sector more generally) in April, 1933.

From Quiz World War II -The Holocaust

Answer: Dachau

Dachau was established on March 22, 1933. It was located near Munich, Germany and initially was used primarily for political opponents of the Nazis.

From Quiz One Can Make A Difference

Answer: gave her a cross necklace and told people she was his daughter

Riva Reznikova lost her mother when she was five years old. She was sent to an orphanage in Moscow because her relatives had no room. Her teacher, Aleksander Kramarovskiy, had compassion for her when he saw her being bullied by the other students. He wanted to adopt her, but his wife and family refused. The situation changed when Nazis began attacking the city. Kramarovskiy, fearing for Riva's safety, took her away from the city and chose to hide her identity. The two wandered through different territories, claiming to be father and daughter. When Nazis questioned them, Kramarovskiy referred to the cross necklace on Riva's neck and called her Margarita. When the war was over, Kramarovskiy wanted Riva to go back to Germany because he was convinced the Soviet Union would not give her a better future. Riva refused to leave him. They settled in Israel in 1946. After Riva was married, Kramrovskiy moved to the United States for a Russian journaling positioning 1961.

From Quiz Saving Rozwadów

Answer: Weil-Felix test

European microbiologists Arthur Felix and Edward Weil developed a test during World War I that was able to detect typhus. The Weil-Felix test was widely used during the Second World War and so the Polish doctors utilized this test in their fake epidemic. The doctors decided to focus on anyone who came to them with an illness. They would give first give them an injection, draw blood from their "infected" patients and await the results. They advised their patients that they were injecting them with a protein stimulation therapy. They didn't actually make anyone sick with typhus but instead injected a substance into people that mimicked the result of a positive typhus test.

From Quiz Children of the Holocaust

Answer: 1943

Franco was born in Bologna, Italy, on September 20th, 1931. At the age of seven, he was expelled from public school and sent to a makeshift Jewish school. After the death of his father in 1939, he moved to Turin, Italy, with his mother and older brother, Lelio. Sometime in 1943, the family went into hiding in the mountains to evade German forces. Franco and Lelio joined the Justice and Liberty partisan group. On September 14th, 1944, Franco, aged 12, was shot by Germans while on a scouting mission. His body was returned to his family on his 13th birthday.

From Quiz Arbeit Macht Frei: "Work Sets You Free"

Answer: 45

The Auschwitz group of camps grew rapidly from 1941 on. Trzebinia, Blechhammer, Jaworzno, Myslowice and Jawiszowice were among the places where the satellite camps were built.

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