Wiki+Assignment+1---The+Guardian+Project

Please read the following information and complete the assignment below.

Persecute.....genocide.....anti-Semitism.....annihilation---these are just some of the words that help to define what the Holocaust was. The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 while the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, led by Adolf Hitler, controlled first Germany and then much of Europe. Those years of horror are referred to as the Third Reich.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Council defines the Holocaust:

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators as a central act of state during World War II. Although Jews were the primary victims, up to one half million Gypsies and at least 250,000 mentally or physically disabled persons were also victims of genocide. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe from 1933 to 1945, millions of other innocent people were persecuted and often murdered. Under the Nazis, the goal of the German government was to kill all the Jewish people in Europe in a step by step plan carried out by government workers. Other people whom the Nazis considered unworthy were also marked for death.

Assignment---IN THE DISCUSSION TAB FOR THIS WIKI PAGE, PLEASE DEFINE THE TERMS AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

Define the following terms---

1. Persecute--- 2. Genocide--- 3. Anti-Semitism--- 4. annihilation---

The Guardian Project will begin with you answering the following questions. Please use complete sentences, correct punctuation and grammar.

What is a guardian?

Why did some people risk their lives to save the Jewish people?