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?
- March 20, 1933
- September 15, 1935
- April 1, 1933
- November 9–10, 1938
Who made the decision on card B, Esme asks?
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- The British government
- The children's own schools
- The government of Denmark
- The Nazi regime
On the sheet, what was Kristallnacht, Kira asks?
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- A nationwide riot against Jews in 1938
- A boycott that began in 1933
- A rescue of children to Britain
- A law that took away citizenship
By card B's context box, what happened during Kristallnacht, Luz asks?
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- The Dachau camp was closed down
- Jews were made citizens again
- Britain closed its borders to children
- More than 1,400 synagogues were burned
How many years passed from the Nazis taking power (1933) to Kristallnacht (1938), Milo asks?
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- 5 years
- 15 years
- 3 years
- 3,871 years
By card A's limits box, what can a law not show Noah?
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- What the regime ordered
- How Jewish families lived through it
- Whom the laws said Jews could marry
- When the laws were announced
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 they were going to Britain
- Because Britain asked for it
- Just because they were Jewish
By card B, how many children did the transports bring to safety, Ren asks?
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- Nearly 10,000
- Nearly 1,000
- Nearly 100,000
- About 26,000
By card B's limits box, who could not come with the children, Tala asks?
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- Their parents
- Their teachers in Britain
- Jewish aid groups
- British foster families
Why does the sheet show persecution growing step by step, Zee asks?
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- Britain wrote the 1935 laws
- The Nazis gave rights back in 1938
- Everything happened in one day in 1933
- Each step brought harsher laws and acts
