1. If they dropped 13 bombs on Auschwitz- Birkenay in the first hour, and 21 in the second hour, according to the Fibonacci Sequence, how many bombs will they drop on hour 4?
2. The Soviets found 14,000 lb. of human hair.  If each had 2.5 lb. of hair, to how many people did the hair belong? What if 25% of it was brown. 50% was black, 15% was red, and 10% blonde, how many pounds were of each color?
3. If the Nazi's established 13 plants in 4 years, and doubled that number by the end of the 8 years, how many plants did they have by the end of the 8th year?

The following word problems were contributed by Catie ('03).

4. There were 1.7 million Jews gassed at Aktion Reinhard camps, what percent of the 6 million Jews is this?

5. If there are four gas chambers and a million Jews died in one year, estimate to the nearest tenth how many died each day?  How many died in each day in each camber?  (Hint- 365 days in a year)

6. If 170,000 prisoners died at Majdanek what percent of the of 6,000,000 people who died? (Hint- round your number off)

Answers to Word Problems

Scavenger Hunt

Contributed By Kenneth and Catie

1. What are the daily hours of the Holocaust Museum?
2. When do the Special Exhibitions open?

Click on Special Focus; Women's History Month

1. What women were selected first for gassing and killing camps?
2. Pregnant Jewish women were forced to do what?
3. Between 1933 and 1939 how many Jews migrated from Germany and Austria?
4. Over 50,000 German Jews migrate during the 1930s?

Go to http://www.ushmm.org/

1. Who is on the first page?  

2. What did she do?

Go down and click on “Day of Remembrance”

3. How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?

4. What is the main name of the exhibitions?

Click on “Research” down at the bottom of the page. 
Next click on the picture on the side of the page.
Then click on previous page until you get to the boat.

5. What kind of boat is it?

6. What is the name of the boat and why was it used during World War ll?

Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. The United States Holocaust Museum is in North Carolina.

2. The museum has three main floors.

3. Jews were not the only people killed during the Holocaust.

         The Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national site for telling the tragic story of millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.  This systematic persecution of European Jews by Nazi Germany happened between 1933 and 1945.  Jews were the main victims with six million murdered.  Gypsies, the handicapped, and Poles were also targeted.  Millions more including homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and people who disagreed with Hitler suffered greatly. 
          The Museum’s main purpose is to educate all people about this tragedy and to preserve the memory of those who suffered.  The Museum also encourages visitors to think upon questions raised by the events of the Holocaust.  “Why did this happen?”  “Why did people follow Hitler?”
          Congress approved the Museum in 1980.  It is close to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  The Museum’s founders hoped to increase public understanding of the history of the Holocaust through programs, exhibitions, research, and publications. 
          The staff of the Museum collected and preserved material evidence related to the Holocaust.  The Permanent Exhibition on the Holocaust spans three floors. Visitors learn the sad history by viewing more than 900 artifacts, 70 video monitors, and four theaters that include historic film footage and eyewitness testimonies.  The exhibition is divided into three parts: “Nazi Assault,”  “Final Solution,” and “Last Chapter.” 
          One display not to miss includes “Daniel’s Story,” a tribute to the children of the Holocaust.
          By seeing an actual train car, a room full of shoes, clothing, bunk beds, and family photographs, the visitor relates to the people of the Holocaust.

Answer to word problem

1. 5600
2. Blonde: 1,400
   Red: 2,100
3. 26
4. 28.3%
5. 2740 Jews died each day, 685 died in each day in each chamber.
6. 2.8%

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

Click on Museum Exhibitions

1. What are the daily hours of the Holocaust Museum?  10 A.M. - 5:20 P.M.
2. When do the Special Exhibitions open? April 10, 2002

1. What women were selected first for gassing and killing camps? Small Children 
2. Pregnant Jewish women were forced to do what? Conceal their pregnancy to have an abortion  
3. Between 1933 and 1939 how many Jews migrated from Germany and Austria? 300,000
4. Over 50,000 German Jews migrate during the 1930s? Palestine
   

1. Under the SS management, how many Jews did the Germans kill? Three million
2. When was the first extermination camp opened? December 1941
3. Why did the Nazis construct gas chambers? Increase killing efficiency

4. Go to http://www.ushmm.org/

5. Who is on the first page?  Anne Frank.  

6. What did she do? She wrote in her diary about what was happening during the Holocaust.

7. Go down and click on “Day of Remembrance”

8. How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust? About six million. 

9. What is the main name of the exhibitions? Days of Remembrance

10. Click on “Research” down at the bottom of the page. 
     Next click on the picture on the side of the page.
     Then click on previous page until you get to the boat.

11. What kind of boat is it? A Danish rescue boat.

12. What is the name of the boat and why was it used during World War ll? Sunshine.  It transported Danish refugees from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden.

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Answers to Fact and Fiction

1. False.  It is located in Washington D.C..

2. True

3. True

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Citation

"United States Holocaust Museum" United States Holocaust Museum.  17 January, 2003. <http://www.ushmm.org/>