The Activity Booklet

The Holocaust
Gina Hong
Period 1

This activity booklet is about the things you should know about the Holocaust and how the Holocaust
relates to change, survival, and power.
Directions:

Help find this man way to his family after the Nazi have taken him away to a concentration camp.
Directions: Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the
right.

An organized and often officially encouraged massacre of or attack on

1. death camp Jews. The word is derived from two Russian words that mean "thunder."

false or partly false information used by a government or political party

2. antisemitism intended to sway the opinions of the population.

deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural, or

3. concentration camps religious group.

Derived from the Greek holokaustonwhich meant a sacrifice totally

burned by fire. Today, the term refers to the systematic planned
4. aryan extermination of about six million European Jews and millions of others
by the Nazis between 1933-1945.

Jews who professed to accept Christianity in order to escape

5. genocide persecution during the Spanish Inquisition.

Nazi euphemism for the deliberate killings of institutionalized physically,

mentally, and emotionally handicapped people. The euthanasia
6. displacement program began in 1939, with German non-Jews as the first victims. The
program was later extended to Jews.

Acronym for Geheime Staatspolizei, meaning Secret State Police. Prior

7. b'richa to the outbreak of war, the Gestapo used brutal methods to investigate
and suppress resistance to Nazi rule within Germany.

Nazi extermination centers where Jews and other victims were brought
8. euthanasia to be killed as part of Hitler's Final Solution.

The process, either official or unofficial, of people being involuntarily

moved from their homes because of war, government policies, or other
9. dehumanization societal actions, requiring groups of people to find new places to live.
Displacement is a recurring theme in the history of the Jewish people.

Nazi policy of denying Jews basic civil rights such as practicing religion,
10. gestapo education, and adequate housing.

Nazi extermination centers where Jews and other victims were brought
11. marranos to be killed as part of Hitler's Final Solution.
12. pogrom opposition to and discrimination against Jews.

The organized and illegal mass movement of Jews throughout Europe

13. holocaust following World War II.

a term for peoples speaking the language of Europe and India. In Nazi
14. propaganda racial theory, a person of pure German "blood."
Direction:

For each letter write things about the Holocaust. You can put just one word or you can you
phases. Make sure it relates how the holocaust relates to power, change, and survival.

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
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O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
 Direction:

Match these Holocaust survivors with what you think they would say to the public eye by
using the descriptions I give you.

My parents were gone one day and
so someone close to me took care of
me. Still, one day they took me
away.
-Anonymous
I was one of the few lucky
children who got shipped away to
America. When I first got there I
hated it because, nothing was
familiar and I had nothing I love
with me.
-Anonymous
I lost everything I love during the
Holocaust. The Nazi took me away
and put me in a concentration
camp. I will never forget the
moment when I lost everything.
-Anonymous

This man went to Auschwitz and he lost
his brother there. Also the Nazi took
away his little sister and both of his
parents during the Holocaust.
This man was one of the lucky children in
the Holocaust. He got to escape to
America but he had to leave behind his
prize possessions and his parents.
This woman lost all her families
while she was in school. When she
came home her neighbor had to
take her in, but eventually she was
taken away by the Nazi.