The Holocaust: how persecution grew into genocide, and how the world remembers
Grade 10 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
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Card A (September 15, 1935): "The Nuremberg Laws". Who made it: the Nazi regime (described here in our words). For whom: everyone living in Germany. Why: to take citizenship from Jews, following Nazi racial ideas. Summary in our words, not a quotation: Two race laws: the Reich Citizenship Law and the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor". Jews could no longer be citizens, and the laws restricted whom Jews could marry. After 1935, Jews were steadily shut out of public places in Germany. Context (what else was happening): The Nazis had held power since January 1933; the boycott of Jewish businesses came in April 1933. Limits (what this source cannot tell us): A law shows what the regime ordered. It does not show how Jewish families lived through it. Card B (1938): "The Kindertransport visa decision". Who made it: the British government. For whom: Jewish children under 17 in Nazi Germany and the lands it had taken. Why: to let children reach safety. Summary in our words, not a quotation: Britain waived visas for children under 17. In 1938 and 1939 the transports brought nearly 10,000 children, mainly Jewish, to safety in the United Kingdom. Context (what else was happening): During Kristallnacht, Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues (Britannica counts over 1,000 burned or damaged; sources differ), and police imprisoned about 26,000 Jewish men in concentration camps just because they were Jewish (the Jewish Museum Berlin says about 30,000; sources differ). Limits (what this source cannot tell us): It shows one rescue effort. The children's parents were not allowed to come with them. Below the strip: Facts are from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the main ones were checked against a second source.
When were the Nuremberg Laws announced, by the strip, Ari asks?
- November 9–10, 1938
- September 15, 1935
- April 1, 1933
- March 20, 1933
By card A, what did the Nuremberg Laws take from Jews, Bo asks?
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- Their German citizenship
- Their right to go to Britain
- No rights; the laws were symbolic
- Their shops, in April 1933
Who made the decision on card B, Esme asks?
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- The government of Denmark
- The children's own schools
- The British government
- The Nazi regime
What happened on April 1, 1933, by the strip, Jun asks?
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- A boycott of Jewish-owned businesses
- The Nuremberg Laws
- Kristallnacht
- The first Kindertransport
On the sheet, what was Kristallnacht, Kira asks?
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- A law that took away citizenship
- A nationwide riot against Jews in 1938
- A boycott that began in 1933
- A rescue of children to Britain
How many years passed from the Nazis taking power (1933) to Kristallnacht (1938), Milo asks?
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- 15 years
- 3 years
- 3,871 years
- 5 years
By card A's limits box, what can a law not show Noah?
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- How Jewish families lived through it
- When the laws were announced
- Whom the laws said Jews could marry
- What the regime ordered
Why were tens of thousands of Jewish men imprisoned in November 1938, by card B, Pia asks?
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- Because of a vote that year
- Because Britain asked for it
- Because they were going to Britain
- Just because they were Jewish
By card B's limits box, who could not come with the children, Tala asks?
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- Their teachers in Britain
- Their parents
- Jewish aid groups
- British foster families
Why does the sheet show persecution growing step by step, Zee asks?
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- The Nazis gave rights back in 1938
- Each step brought harsher laws and acts
- Everything happened in one day in 1933
- Britain wrote the 1935 laws