Holocaust Exam II Study Guide

You should be able to:

• Describe the various types of resistance and provide instances of each.

• Discuss the varying roles of victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers.

• Describe the events surrounding the Warsaw ghetto uprising and other sites of armed resistance.

• List and discuss the various cultural, historic, situational, and personality factors hypothesized to play a role in the perpetration of the Holocaust.

• Discuss and identify the effects of torture on an individual.

• Describe life in the concentration camps as described in your readings.

• Discuss the will to witness.

• Discuss the reality, effects, and motivation behind excremental assault.

• Discuss the nature of resistance in the camps.

• Describe liberation and the events following liberation.

• Discuss the concept of DP camps and life in the camps.

• Be able to discuss the various uprising in the camps.

Define or describe the following terms:

• Zimbardo prison study

• "organizing"

• "Canada"

• Milgram's obedience study

• Appel

• Kapo (Capo)

• Asch's conformity study

• The Exodus

• selections

• Choiceless Choice

• Cyprus

• Musselman

• Sonderkommandos

• Danish rescue

You should be able to identify the following individuals:

• Raoul Wallenberg

• Sugihara

• Varian Fry

• Rudolf Hoess

• Jean Amery

• Gerda Klein

• Adolf Hitler

• Hermann Goring

• Adolf Eichmann

• Heinrich Himmler