The Nazi Hunters

Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Chapters 1-3

Reading Check

1. Why does Adolf Eichmann join the Jewish Affairs office?

2. Who is the first person to locate a photograph of Eichmann?

3. In which year does Wiesenthal finally learn of Eichmann’s whereabouts?

4. What is the name of Israel’s secret intelligence agency?

5. What happens to the Eichmann investigation by August of 1958?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What is Eichmann’s four-step plan to execute Hitler’s goal?

2. What is 1945 like for Eichmann and Zeev? How are their experiences different?

3. Who is Simon Wiesenthal? How is he instrumental in the search for Eichmann?

4. Who is Sylvia Hermann? What important fact does she discover about Eichmann?

5. How does Isser Harel plan to locate Eichmann?

Paired Resource

“The ‘Jewish Question’”

• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explores the meaning of the “Jewish Question” and the “Final Solution.”
• This information connects with the theme Justice for the Victims of the Holocaust.
• What were some of the “solutions” offered by the Nazi German state to the presence of a Jewish minority in society? How did antisemites feel about conversion or acculturation?