On April 1, 1933, SA men stood outside Jewish-owned shops across Germany urging Germans not to buy there. What was the significance of this one-day boycott?

On April 7, 1933, a German law removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from government service, including posts as judges, teachers and university professors. What was this law called?

On May 10, 1933, Nazi student groups in 34 German towns gathered in public squares and burned some 25,000 volumes by Jewish, pacifist and leftist authors. What was the aim of the burnings?

Two laws announced at a Nazi party rally on September 15, 1935 revoked German citizenship for Jews and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans. By what name is this pair of laws known?

On the night of November 9-10, 1938, attacks across Germany and Austria burned more than 1,400 synagogues, plundered about 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, killed 91 Jews and sent 30,000 Jewish men to camps. Name that night.

A regulation issued on November 14, 1935 classed anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew. What does this show about the Nazi definition of a Jew?

The Reich Citizenship Law of 1935 held that only a person of 'German or related blood' could be a Reich citizen, and made Jews 'subjects' of the state instead. What did Jews in Germany lose as a result?

In autumn 1939 Hitler signed a secret authorization, backdated to September 1, letting doctors grant a 'mercy death' to patients judged incurable. What followed from it?

A decree of September 1941 required every Jew aged six or over in the Reich to wear a yellow Star of David marked 'Jude' on their outer clothing in public. What was its immediate effect?

German authorities sealed the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940, confining about 30 percent of the city's people in 2.4 percent of its area on rations far below what other residents got. What followed there by mid-1942?

On January 20, 1942, fifteen senior German officials met at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich of the Reich Security Main Office. What was that meeting called to do?

After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, mobile SS and police units followed the army, assembled the Jews of each town at pits outside it, and shot them. What were these units called?

On September 29-30, 1941, Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C and its auxiliaries shot 33,771 Jews in a ravine just outside Kyiv. What is that killing site called?

The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto in German-occupied Europe in both area and population.

The revolt that began in the Warsaw ghetto on April 19, 1943 was led by the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), whose roughly 700 poorly armed fighters held out for nearly a month. Who commanded them?

At Auschwitz the Germans murdered about one million Jews, 70,000-75,000 Poles and more than 14,000 Soviet prisoners of war, plus about 21,000 members of another group singled out on racial grounds. Which group?

In 1942 the Germans opened three killing centers in occupied Poland - Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka - built to murder the Jews of the General Government on arrival. What did the Germans call this operation?

At Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka the SS killed with carbon monoxide from engine exhaust. At Auschwitz-Birkenau they used hydrogen cyanide released from pellets instead. What was the trade name of those pellets?

How many Jewish men, women and children did Nazi Germany, its allies and its collaborators murder in the Holocaust?

Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz camp complex on January 27, 1945.

US troops reached Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald, on April 4, 1945. Eisenhower visited on April 12 with Bradley and Patton and ordered the camps documented in detail. Why did he order that?

US forces entered the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar on April 11, 1945. What did they find there?

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg tried 22 major German defendants on four counts from November 1945 to October 1946. Which count covered the murder and persecution of civilians on racial, religious or political grounds?

In his 1944 book 'Axis Rule in Occupied Europe', a Polish Jewish lawyer joined the Greek word for a race or tribe to the Latin ending for killing, to name the destruction of a people. Who coined the word 'genocide'?

The United States loosened its immigration quotas during the 1930s so that Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany could be admitted.

Delegates from 32 countries met at Evian, France in July 1938 to discuss Jewish refugees fleeing Germany and Austria. What came of the conference?

In May 1939 the liner St. Louis carried 937 passengers, almost all Jewish refugees, from Hamburg to Havana. Cuba refused them, and the United States and Canada would not admit them. What happened next?

By late 1942 the State Department had verified reports that Germany was murdering Europe's Jews. What did the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and eight governments-in-exile do on December 17, 1942?

In the summer of 1944 Jewish organizations and the War Refugee Board asked the US War Department to bomb the rail lines to Auschwitz or the gas chambers at Birkenau. How did the War Department respond?

President Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board by executive order on January 22, 1944, charging it with the rescue and relief of victims of Nazi persecution. What prompted him to act?