Q 01/05

Which country offered to accept up to 100,000 Jewish refugees at the 1938 Évian Conference?

A) South Africa

B) United Kingdom

C) Dominican Republic

D) El Salvador

Answer · why

C) Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo made the offer, alone among the 32 nations at Évian, yet fewer than a thousand refugees ever settled in th...

Q 02/05

What sounds across Israel on the morning of Yom HaShoah, halting traffic for two minutes of silence?

A) A shofar blast

B) An air-raid siren

C) A cannon salute

D) A bugle call

Answer · why

B) An air-raid siren

An air-raid siren sounds for two minutes and Israelis stop whatever they are doing, with motorists stepping out of their cars to stand in silence. The...

Q 03/05

The UN's Holocaust remembrance day, 27 January, marks the 1945 liberation of which camp?

A) Bergen-Belsen

B) Auschwitz

C) Mauthausen

D) Ravensbrück

Answer · why

B) Auschwitz

Auschwitz was reached by the Red Army on 27 January 1945, but only about 7,000 prisoners were left: the SS had marched tens of thousands west days ear...

Q 04/05

Danish boats carried more than 7,000 of Denmark's Jews to safety in which country in October 1943?

A) Sweden

B) Norway

C) Finland

D) Britain

Answer · why

A) Sweden

Sweden took them in after a German diplomat, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, leaked word of the planned round-up. Fishing boats ferried the refugees across ...

Q 05/05

The liner St. Louis left Hamburg in May 1939 with 937 passengers bound for which port, which refused to let them land?

A) Miami

B) Veracruz

C) Halifax

D) Havana

Answer · why

D) Havana

Havana let almost none of them land, the United States and Canada also turned the ship away, and it sailed back to Europe. About a quarter of the pass...