Holocaust+Research

====**Assignment: **You will be using the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) website to answer questions about the Holocaust. ====

**Objective: **
Research and gain a better understanding of the Holocaust by completing a webquest.

**__Directions: __**
====-Title your paper, __Holocaust Research__. Set up your paper in sections (title the sections the same as the links). ====

-Answer each question using complete sentences.
====-Please do not go anywhere else on the website. Only go to the links provided to you. ====

 Go to the Anti-Semitism link. 1. Define Anti-Semitism: 2. What were the Nuremberg Laws? Give examples.

Go to the Third Reich: An Overview link. 1. What was the "Fuehrer Principle" and how did Hitler achieve such power?

Go to the Nazi Camps link. 1. What groups of people were sent to the camps? 2. What was the purpose of the extermination camps? 3. How many Jews were murdered each day at the Birkenau extermination camp in Auschwitz during its peak?

Go to the Jewish Resistance link. 1. Describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Go to the Forced Labor link. 1. Describe the conditions under which prisoners were forced to work (provide 5 different examples). 2. What was the policy of "annihilation through work?"

Go to the Rescue link. 1. How did the citizens of Denmark assist in the rescue of Jews? 2. Who was Oskar Schindler and what did he do?

Go to the Liberation of Nazi Camps link: 1. What did the Soviet troops discover at Auschwitz? 2. Describe the physical condition of those who survived the camps.

Go to the Nuremberg Trials link: 1. __Who__ was involved in the Nuremberg Trials? __What__ were the Nuremberg Trials? __Where__ were the Nuremberg Trials? __When__ were the Nuremberg Trials held? 2. Do you think those people who participated in the Holocaust were appropriately punished? Why or why not? Explain.

Turn In Your Work:
Make sure your name, date, block, and title are on your paper. Hand your work in to Mr. Warner or place it in the your block's in-box.