Lesson Y9-U06-L06

Y9-U06-L06 Why Do We Remember the Holocaust Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 19

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Lesson Y9-U06-L06, Why Do We Remember the Holocaust: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 19: Year 9: The Holocaust, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is 'significance' in history?

    • How shocking an event was at the time, and how widely the news of it was reported abroad
    • How many people an event involved, and how many of them were killed in total by its end
    • How many books and films were written about an event in the years that followed it
    • How important an event is, both then and for us today, not only how big or shocking it was

  2. Which of these shows lasting change that came from the Holocaust?

    • The location of some camps in Poland
    • A new word, 'genocide', and laws against it
    • The use of trains to move people
    • The number of railway stations in Germany

  3. What is Holocaust Memorial Day?

    • The day Hitler was made Chancellor and the Nazis took power in Berlin
    • The day Germany invaded Poland and began the Second World War in 1939
    • The day the Warsaw Ghetto was sealed and the first deportations began
    • A special day each 27 January to remember the victims

  4. Why was 27 January chosen for Holocaust Memorial Day?

    • It is the date Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated in 1945
    • It is the date of the Nuremberg Laws
    • It is the date Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor
    • It is the date of the Reichstag fire

  5. What is Yad Vashem?

    • A memorial in Jerusalem that records the names of the victims
    • A court that tried Nazi officials in 1946
    • A camp where victims were held before deportation
    • A museum in Berlin about Nazi rallies

  6. What are Stolpersteine, or 'stumbling stones'?

    • Brass coins given to survivors as compensation for their lost property
    • Statues of rescuers in public parks that were unveiled in the 1960s
    • Small brass plaques set in pavements outside victims' former homes
    • Stone walls built around the ghettos to keep residents from escaping

  7. Which upstander organised trains that brought 669 children to Britain in 1939?

    • Janusz Korczak
    • Nicholas Winton
    • Irena Sendler
    • Chiune Sugihara

  8. About how many people did the Bielski brothers shelter in a forest community?

    • Over 12,000
    • Over 120
    • Under 200
    • Over 1,200

  9. In which country was the Bielski forest community?

    • Poland
    • Austria
    • Belarus
    • Lithuania

  10. What do the Stolpersteine remind passers-by of?

    • Victims were ordinary neighbours who lived in those very homes
    • Where the Nazi Party held its rallies and marching parades each year
    • The locations of concentration camps that were built in the east
    • Where synagogues were rebuilt after the war by local communities

  11. What does 'remembrance' mean?

    • Writing textbooks without the victims' names
    • Forgetting painful events after a generation
    • Choosing to keep an event and its victims in our memory
    • Celebrating military victories each year

  12. What is a survivor in this context?

    • A guard who worked at an extermination camp and later gave evidence
    • A person who lived through the Holocaust and often later shared their testimony
    • A soldier who fought only in the Warsaw Uprising and then went home
    • A diplomat who signed Nazi treaties and later helped with the trials

  13. Why was 'survivors' testimony shapes how schools teach human rights' classed as significant?

    • Because it describes a camp's location
    • Because it is a true fact about a single day
    • Because it lists the number of trains used
    • Because it still shapes how people learn today

  14. Which statement is just a detail rather than a reason the Holocaust matters?

    • The Holocaust led to a new word and laws against genocide
    • The Nazis used trains to move people across Europe
    • Survivors' testimony shapes how schools teach human rights
    • Around six million Jewish people were murdered

  15. When would the use of trains become significant in an enquiry?

    • When the enquiry is about the local weather
    • When the enquiry asks about German sports
    • When the enquiry asks how the Nazis organised mass murder
    • When the enquiry is only about the price of tickets

  16. Why do Stolpersteine reach people who are not looking for a memorial?

    • They are hidden under water in the harbour areas of old port towns
    • They are placed inside secret archives where few visitors can see them
    • They are only visible from inside a museum and only on special days
    • They sit in everyday streets, so remembrance becomes part of daily life

  17. Why is recording names at Yad Vashem important?

    • It shows which guards should be blamed
    • It turns six million victims into individuals with families and futures
    • It proves the exact number of people murdered in a single day
    • It was required by the Nuremberg Laws

  18. Why do upstander stories matter today?

    • They show that rescuers were never in danger from the authorities
    • They show that people always have a choice to act or to stand by
    • They prove that most Germans were rescuers who protected their neighbours
    • They replace the need to study the victims and their families in depth

  19. How should a fair historian answer the claim that focusing on rescuers softens the Holocaust?

    • Rescuers were the majority of non-Jewish people, so the horror was smaller than it seems
    • Rescue stories should be removed from lessons so that pupils can focus on the victims
    • Rescuers prove the Holocaust was not planned and was partly accidental in its origins
    • Rescuers were rare, so they must not soften the horror, yet their stories show that choice existed

  20. Which best explains why we still remember the Holocaust?

    • Its victims and their choices still teach us about humanity and warn us for today
    • It is remembered only because of films and books made about it later
    • It is remembered only because it was the largest war event of the century
    • It is remembered only for its military importance in the wider war

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