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Word Problems

1. If The Holocaust Museum is 161feet wide, 312 feet long, 91 feet tall, what is the volume of the building?
2. If The Holocaust museum has had a total of 28.4 million people visit it since 1993 including, 7 million children, 2.6 million international visitors, 2.8 million minority visitors and 16 million non-Jewish visitors. What percent of the visitors were children? Use the graph to find out your answer.

                   

3. What is the total amount of people that died from diseases? What percentage were healthy and shipped out?

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Scavenger  Hunt

Use this web page to answer the questions.   http://www.ushmm.org/

1. How many artifacts does the museum have? Video monitors? Theaters?

2. Who was the museum Architect?

3. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin that means what?

4. How many mentally or physically disabled people were killed during the Holocaust?

5. Approximately, how many European Jews moved to Israel?

6. Under SS management, the Germans killed __________ Jews in the
   extermination camps in occupied Poland.

Answers to Scavenger  Hunt

1. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin that means “sacrifice by fire”

2. In 1933, the Jewish population was under seven million.

3. The term “genocide,” did not exist before 1944.

4. Over four million children were murdered under Nazi rule in Germany.

5. Women with small children were normally the last to be “selected” for gassing.

Answers to Fact or Fiction

          The Holocaust was an event where the Nazi's murdered approximately six million Jews.  “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.”  The Nazi’s came to power in January 1933 and in that time the Jewish population was over nine million.
         By 1945, almost two out of every three Jews were killed as part of the “Final Solution”.  Almost 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people were murdered in the Euthanasia Program.  Many people died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment.
          Nazi’s established concentration camps to imprison Jews and anyone that was hated by the Nazi’s. They also came up with Einsatzgruppen, which were mobile killing units. These units murdered more than one million Jewish men, woman, and children.
          After the Holocaust many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons camps.  Between 1948 and 1951, most of the Jews emigrated.  Some went to Israel and others went to the United States and other nations.  The last displaced persons camp was closed in 1957.  The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated many European Jewish communities.    

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Answers

Answer to Math Word Problem.

1. 4,571,112

2. 25%

3. 17,000 ; 13%  

Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. 900 artifacts, 70 video monitors, and 4 theaters.

2. James Ingo Freed

3. “Sacrifice by fire”

4. 200,000

5. 700,000

6. 3 million

Return to questions

1. True.
2. False, population in 1933 was over nine million
3. True.
4. False, it is estimated that over one million children were murdered during the Holocaust.
5. False, women with small children were normally “selected” first in extermination camps.
   

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Citation

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 11 2005. USHMM. 07 Feb. 2006 <http://www.ushmm.org/>.