80 The Holocaust Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which 1947 memoir by Primo Levi recounts his imprisonment at Auschwitz?
Answer
If This Is a Man
Which 1943 rescue effort transported most of Denmark’s Jewish population to neutral Sweden?
Answer
Rescue of the Danish Jews
On which two dates in November 1938 did Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against Jews, take place?
Answer
9–10 November 1938
Which phrase was displayed at the entrance gate of Auschwitz I concentration camp?
Answer
Arbeit macht frei
Which memorial in Berlin commemorates the approximately six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust?
Answer
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Which Nazi extermination camp operated near the village of Sobibór in occupied Poland?
Answer
Sobibór extermination camp
Which Nazi decree of February 1933 suspended key civil liberties in Germany?
Answer
Reichstag Fire Decree
Which 1943 report was written by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler after escaping Auschwitz?
Answer
Vrba–Wetzler report
Which 1945 courtroom trial prosecuted major Nazi leaders for crimes against peace and humanity?
Answer
Nuremberg Trials
Which Jewish resistance fighter led the uprising at the Sobibór extermination camp in 1943?
Answer
Alexander Pechersky
Which 1942 Nazi operation deported Jews from Germany and occupied Europe to ghettos and killing centers?
Answer
Operation Reinhard
Which 1938 Nazi pogrom against Jews is commonly known as Kristallnacht?
Answer
Kristallnacht
Which 1943 Nazi massacre murdered Jews at the site of the former Ponary railway station?
Answer
Ponary massacre
Which Nazi camp was the main destination for deportees from the Drancy camp in France?
Answer
Auschwitz-Birkenau
What was the name of the 1942 conference where Nazi officials coordinated the Final Solution?
Answer
Wannsee Conference
Which Nazi official coordinated the deportation of European Jews during the Holocaust?
Answer
Adolf Eichmann
Which Nazi extermination camp was located at Chełmno in occupied Poland?
Answer
Chełmno extermination camp
Which 1943 Jewish resistance uprising took place in the Warsaw Ghetto?
Answer
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Which 1944 diary was written by Anne Frank while she hid from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam?
Answer
The Diary of a Young Girl
Which 1935 laws defined Jewish identity and restricted Jewish rights in Nazi Germany?
Answer
Nuremberg Laws
Which Nazi camp was the site of the 1944 medical experiments associated with Josef Mengele?
Answer
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Who commanded Auschwitz concentration camp for most of its existence?
Answer
Rudolf Höss
On what date did the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begin in 1943?
Answer
19 April 1943
On what date did United States troops liberate Dachau concentration camp?
Answer
29 April 1945
Which author wrote the Holocaust memoir Night, first published in 1956?
Answer
Elie Wiesel
On what date did British forces liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp?
Answer
15 April 1945
Which French town was the site of the 1944 massacre in which German troops killed 642 civilians?
Answer
Oradour-sur-Glane
Which 1942 massacre of Jews took place in the Lithuanian village of Ponary, near Vilnius?
Answer
Ponary massacre
Which two siblings became leading members of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany?
Answer
Hans and Sophie Scholl
Which 1943 revolt did Jewish prisoners stage at the Treblinka extermination camp?
Answer
Treblinka prisoner uprising