Holocaust Exam II Study Guide
You should be able to:
- 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 issue of choiceless choice.
- Discuss the varying roles of victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers.
- Describe the role of bystanders during the Holocaust including actions taken or not taken
- Identify and describe the work of various rescuers during the Holocaust.
- Describe the various types of resistance (e.g., passive and active) and provide instances of each.
- Be able to discuss the various uprising in the camps.
- 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.
- Describe the impact of trauma on survivors.
- Describe liberation and the events following liberation.
- Discuss the concept of DP camps and life in the camps.
Define or describe the following terms:
- S.S. St. Louis
- Zimbardo prison study
- Milgram's obedience study
- Asch's conformity study
- selections
- Danish rescue
- The Exodus
- Cyprus
- Musselman
You should be able to identify the following individuals:
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Sugihara
- Varian Fry
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