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Where did the Holocaust take place?

Why didn’t anyone do anything to stop the Holocaust?

How can we prevent the Holocaust from happening again?

Could the Holocaust have been avoided? If so, how?

Why Did Hitler Target Jews

What did Hitler think of the Jews?

How were Jews transported to death camps during the Holocaust?  

How many calories did the kids and adults intake in the concentration camps? Compare it to what kids and adults eat now in seperate paragraphs.

What does the term "Righteous Among the Nations " mean?

Why were the countries like the US slow to take Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany?

What lessons does the Holocaust have for people today?

Why was the world unaware or in denial about of what was happening to the Jews in the Holocaust?  

What were the effects of the Final Solution?

What were three reasons for human rights violations during the Holocaust? 

What were the events that brought on the Holocaust?

Why did Hitler hate and persecute minorities, such as homosexuals, who were not Jewish?

Why did the United States not respond to the Holocaust?

When questioned by the S.S., officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation

Some people might say that executing these war criminals (Nazi leaders)  on the spot when they were captured would have saved time and trouble. Why was it important to bring these leaders to trial before an international tribunal?

Explain how you would respond to those who said, at the time of the Nuremberg Trials, "Since there are no specific international laws about the Nazis' actions, we cannot justify the trials." 

What are two significant examples of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust?

Who were considered the collaborators and bystanders during the Holocaust?

What could I do for a painting regarding the Holocaust?

How did non-German governments and volunteers assist Germans carrying out the Holocaust?

The Holocaust is an example of genocide. The eight steps of genocide are classification (the division into "us" and "them"), symbolization (the yellow star that Jews had to wear, skin color), dehumanization, organization (organizations that kill people), polarization, preparation, extermination (the mass killings, the genocide set in motion), and denial. Where are these steps of genocide, and particularly the Holocaust, found and discussed?

What was the ghetto in Lodz like during the Holocaust?

Was the Holocaust real?

"The Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and the Soviet Union would not have been possible without the cooperation of parts of Polish and Soviet society." Critically appraise this statement, referencing facts and arguments from Grabowski’s Hunt for the Jews (you may also draw on Bergen’s War and Genocide and excerpts from the Black Book).

Who were the victims of the Holocaust?

The term 'Polish concentration camp ' is offensive and incorrect.  The German Nazis established the 'concentration camps' on occupied Polish soil. The camps were not Polish as implied by the comment. Please correct the error.

What was the wider significance of the Nuremberg War Crime trials for the world?

What factors limited Jewish resistance during the Holocaust?

What real life events of World War II are depicted in the picture book Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti?

When did the world become aware of the Nazis' genocide of the Jews?

Why did the Jewish people in Germany and surrounding European countries not fight back or take a stand against the Holocaust?  Why did so many go passively to their deaths?

What could the United States involvement in the Holocaust be compared to? What is something similar to the United States involvement in the Holocaust. The example could be anything such as a war.

In relation to the Holocaust, how do people react to laws which their conscience tells them are wrong?

Explain how an action that the Nazis took against the Jewish people constituted genocide.

Explain how Hitler instituted a police state in Germany, including the restrictions he placed on the nation’s Jews.

What were the varied reactions of the Germans to the Jewish Holocaust?

How were women in the concentration camps treated?  Were they automatically thrown into the crematory?

Was the Holocaust a denial of modern European culture, or its fulfillment?  

When did Americans learn of the Holocaust and what was the public response?

What were the major steps in the murder of European Jews by the National Socialist regime from 1939-1945 (the end of the Nazi regime)?

Why does Zygmunt argue the Holocaust was modern?

Discuss the brutal treatment of the Jews and other prisoners in Auschwitz.