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9th grade · Social Studies · Unit 9 of 13

The Holocaust

Persecution and genocide, 1933–1945

What your child practices

The Holocaust as the state-sponsored persecution and murder of Europe's Jews and other victims by Nazi Germany: antisemitism and propaganda, the Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, ghettos, the Final Solution and the camps, told plainly and respectfully.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 9.11 · the Holocaust as the systematic persecution and murder of Europe's Jews and other minorities

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Antisemitism is hatred of or prejudice against Jewish people. The Nazis built on it with lies and propaganda.
  2. Step by step, rights were taken: the Nuremberg Laws (1935) removed citizenship; then came ghettos and camps such as Dachau (1933).
  3. Six million Jews were murdered. People who risked their lives to save Jews are honored as Righteous Among the Nations.

Example: What did the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 do? They were laws passed by the Nazi government. They stripped German Jews of citizenship and rights. Answer: took away German Jews’ citizenship and rights

The Holocaust in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 9 of 13 in 9th grade Social Studies, after World War II and before The Cold War.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Before the killing began, the Nazis organized economic boycotts of…

    • Jewish-owned businesses
    • American movies
    • British goods
    • Soviet factories

  2. Question 2

    Kristallnacht, the November Pogroms of 1938, was a night when…

    • Nazis attacked Jewish homes, shops and synagogues
    • the war ended
    • Germany invaded Poland
    • Jews were given citizenship

  3. Question 3

    At the Wannsee Conference (1942), Nazi officials…

    • surrendered
    • planned D-Day
    • coordinated the 'Final Solution' to murder Europe's Jews
    • signed a treaty

  4. Question 4

    Westerbork and Drancy were…

    • forced-labor factories
    • transit camps
    • ghettos
    • killing centers

  5. Question 5

    People who risked their lives to save Jews are honored as…

    • collaborators
    • bystanders
    • perpetrators
    • Righteous Among the Nations

  6. Question 6

    Why do historians say the Holocaust was 'state-sponsored'?

    • It was an accident
    • No one organized it
    • Other countries forced Germany
    • The German government planned and carried it out

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