what was the purpose of the ghettos? this is a question for people who know about the holocaust?

Question

its about the holocaust

Answer 1

The previous answer is quite good, but I would like to mention that pre-Nazi Jewish ghettos were simply areas were Jews lived separate from the rest of the population, while in the ghettos set up by the Nazis, Jews were confined and they resembled concentration camps in this. There were German guards around these ghettos, and as it was mentioned in the previous answer, the ghettos were transition areas from where people were deported to the death camps. In the time that people lived in these ghettos before their deportation, they had to do forced labor for the profit of Germans. Many died from hunger and diseases in the ghettos. The purpose of the ghettos was to confine the Jews so they couldn't escape the deportations and to make profit with their forced labor before killing them.

Answer 2

Confining Jews in ghettos was not Hitler's brainchild. For centuries, Jews had faced persecution, and were often forced to live in designated areas called ghettos . The Nazis' ghettos differed, however, in that they were a preliminary step in the annihilation of the Jews, rather than a method to just isolate them from the rest of society. As the war against the Jews progressed, the ghettos became transition areas, used as collection points for deportation to death camps and concentration camps .