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1. What was the name of the German industrialist who saved over twelve hundred Jews from the death camps by employing them in his factory?
2. This man bears direct responsibility for the deportation to Nazi death camps of 128,500 Jewish men, women and children from Austria, Greece, France, and Slovakia. He was Eichmann's second in command.
3. A Gestapo squad, led by Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon' planned a dawn raid on a Jewish orphanage on 6 April 1944, taking 44 children and 7 adults away on two trucks. Of the 51 people taken that day, only one adult survived the war. Where was this orphanage?
4. The Warsaw Ghetto was by far the largest in Europe during the Nazi occupation years; in 1942 the Germans started to empty the ghetto by sending thousands to death camps. The great majority were sent to which camp?
5. In the years since the Second World War ended survivors have told their story, or kept quiet and tried to forget what had happened to them. Because of the deprivations the Jews were forced to live and die under, written records from the time itself are rare. However, we are blessed to have one complete diary, written by a young girl in hiding, printed in 55 languages for all to read. Her name, as the world knows, was Anne Frank, and she has become a symbol of the Holocaust. Do you know in which city she hid with her family?
6. One Holocaust survivor who settled in America was challenged by an organisation of neo-Nazis to prove that people were gassed in concentration camps. This was Mel Mermelstein, who proved in an American court of law that the Holocaust did take place, but what was the name of the organisation he was fighting in court?
7. In June 1944 Mala Zimetbaum (number 19880) escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau with a male prisoner from Auschwitz, Edward Galinski (number 531). They were found and brought back and simultaneous executions were planned for 15 September 1944, witnessed by the entire camp in each case. Their plan to make an example of them was thwarted however, as Mala did not hang. What happened?
8. In an attempt to prove to the world (and any hiding Jews) that the Nazis were just re-locating the Jewish population in cities of their own, they formed a model ghetto in the Czech town of Terezin. This town had its roots in the time of Emperor Joseph II and when the Nazis took it over it housed about 7,000. By the time of the war's end, it had a full capacity of 60,000 even though the area it covered had not increased. What was the name of this camp?
9. After Kiev was captured by the Germans in September 1941, they began to murder Jews indiscriminately, as they had been doing in Poland and other parts of Russia they travelled through. After attacks on German-held installations, it was decided that a more sweeping method of removing Jews was preferable, and they were ordered to gather for resettlement. They were marched out of the city to Babi Yar where 33,771 Jews were shot in the space of two days. What does 'Babi Yar' mean?
10. It is a sad fact that the Holocaust was just one incident of genocide during the twentieth century. Six million people were murdered because of their ethnicity, and we are sickened when we hear of atrocities perpetrated in the camps from survivors and witnesses. But genocide is still happening around the world. Do you know how many people died of 'ethnic cleansing' and similar means (all genocides) between 1900 and 2000?
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ArleneRimmer
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