Answer:
Q1: The Nazis often deceived people to get them to do what they wanted. How did they deceive Jews into entering the gas chambers?
-They told them that the gas chamber was really a shower. Disinfection was an expected part of prisoner processing and registration.
Q2: Why did the Nazis create a system of ghettos? What function did the ghettos serve?
-The Nazis created ghettos to control and isolate Jewish populations prior to deportation to concentration camps and killing centers. The Germans also used Jews imprisoned in ghettos as forced laborers.
Q3: What was Kristallnacht?
-Nazis and collaborators launched the first nationwide violence against Germany’s Jews, destroying hundreds of synagogues and looting more than 7,000 businesses. Almost 30,000 Jews were imprisoned in camps.
Q4: What factors made it difficult for people to survive or escape from camps?
-Isolation, starvation, disease, and forced labor made survival and escape extremely difficult. If prisoners escaped the heavily guarded camp, they were alone and vulnerable with shaved heads wearing prisoner uniforms.
Q5: How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?
-The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Q6: Why is it important for visitors to glimpse monuments to American democracy from the Hall of Remembrance?
-The Museum “speaks” to America’s national monuments with a powerful warning about the fragility of freedom, the myth of progress, and the need to preserve democratic values.
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