What was a ghetto during the Holocaust? and what happened to people in 1?

Answer 1

Living in the Ghetto

During the Holocaust, a ghetto was a special section of a city in which Jewish people were forced to live. The conditions of the Nazi created ghettos were horrible and unhealthy - usually cramped, dirty, and with little food. There were many ghettos throughout Europe during the Holocaust period. Some of these were the Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400,000 people crammed into an area of about 2.5 square miles.

The Warsaw Ghetto was created by the Nazis in October of 1940. They forced the Jewish people of Warsaw to live there, and built 19-foot walls around the ghetto area to separate it from the non-Jewish parts of the city. In order to occupy other places in Poland where there were Jewish people, the Nazis ordered Jews from other nearby areas to move into the Warsaw Ghetto. This made the ghetto become even more crowded.

Warsaw Ghetto
A pedestrian crossing bridge over the street separating the Large Ghetto from the Small Ghetto. The bridge was built to keep Jews from stepping outside of the ghetto area.

To differentiate between Jews and non-Jews, the Nazis made the Jews wear Star of David bands on their coat sleeves. A death penalty was enforced on any Jew "Transportation" by Bruce Carter
This artwork depicts the Nazis' enforcement on Jews to wear the Star of David in order to separate them from the non-Jews.

caught trying to escape the ghetto, or any Pole who tried to help Jews in any way. Although there were Jewish people who tried to fight against the Nazis, they ran out of supplies quickly and were caught and taken to prisons.

The Nazis made the living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto as terrible as possible. There were curfews, and guards were put on duty at all times near the walls to make sure no Jews escaped from the ghetto. Many Jews suffered from unemployment and diseases. A typhus epidemic, which killed many Jews, broke out about a year after the ghetto was created. Due to low food rationing, many Jews starved to death. Some chose to kill themselves because they could not stand the physical and emotional pain anymore.

Despite all these horrible conditions and the Nazis' attempt to control and degrade them through oppression, the Jewish people tried to maintain their dignity. They secretly studied, prayed, put on theatrical plays, wrote diaries and histories, and conducted religious services in the ghettos. The Jewish people continued the struggle to self-govern themselves even from within the ghettos.

Just like the other ghettos in Europe, the Warsaw Ghetto became smaller and smaller after many deaths and deportations to concentration camps or death camps. The 2.5 square miles of the Warsaw Ghetto were eventually split into two parts -- the Large Ghetto and the Small Ghetto. A pedestrian crossing bridge was built over the street separating the two ghettos, so that Jewish people would not step on an area outside of the ghettos.

In 1943, although the Jews in Warsaw fought bravely against the Nazis, after one month the Nazis burned down the entire ghetto until nothing else was left.



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Answer 2

Holocaust Ghettos

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What was a ghetto during the Holocaust? and what happened to people in 1?

Answer 4

A ghetto was what Hitler made the Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and anyone else he thought was unworthy of living a normal life, in. In Warsaw, it was only several blocks, and there were often 5-6 families living in one house, sometimes more than that. After they lived in the ghetto, many of them were transferred to a concentration camp, or a work camp, where they were starved, and beaten. "Dr. Mengele" was someone who performed atrocious experiments on twins, albinos, dwarfs/midgets, and anyone else he wanted to. At your public library, there are many wonderful books that will help you understand what the Holocaust was, and how it affected the world. There are some survivors yet alive, that have done interviews. A good movie to watch about the Holocaust is "Schindler's List". It's actually more about what went on in one of the concentration camps, but it will give a pretty clear picture of what happened when they were transferred.

Answer 5

There are not words to describe in Yahoo! Answers everything that entailed a 'ghetto' during this horrific period of history.

If you will go to this link: http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettos.html and really read it, it will give you an idea of what the various types of ghettos were and the end result of the unfortunate souls that were forced into them.

I hope this gives you the answer you need. It's not an answer that can be provided in just a few words. You might want to also do a search on "Warsaw Ghetto," as there is some very important history associated with that particular ghetto.

Good luck; get informed; and remember that "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."

Answer 6

A ghetto during the holocaust was pretty much what a ghetto is today. A run down peice crap section of town where the minorities live. During the holocaust however this part of town was not only run down but gated in aswell. keeping the jews, blacks, gays, and any thing that wasnt full white caged in. Broken windows, sewage backed up, sick people, old people, dead people you name it. a regular stroll through the bronx.

Answer 7

The ghettos were designated areas of a town where Jews were kept. At the ghetto in Krakow, Poland, there were over 200,000 Jews in just 16 blocks of living space.

On March 13, 1943, the ghetto was liquidated and all the Jews were either executed, put to work, or committed suicide.

Answer 8

The most publicised ghetto I think you will find was in Warsaw in Poland,
jews were made to exist in these isolated places cut off from normal
civilization.This city was divided in two the ghetto being surrounded by a
highwall,having little or no money to try and obtain food,or any sort of
everyday items was very hard of course leading many to die of starvation.

Answer 9

The answers above pretty well describe what a ghetto was so I wont elaborate.If you want to get a real feel for what it was like watch the movie called 'The Pianist'.Directed by Roman polanski, It has a very good cast ,Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipmanand a good story about a real person who lived through it.

Go to imdb.com for details

Answer 10

The "Ghetto" is an even older term than that...
Read Shakespeare's: "Merchant of Venice"
They had one in Italy waaaay back then.

It was a part of the city where they forced Jews to live.
The Italians made them wear a funny hat so you could tell them
apart when you saw them on the street.

The Nazis made Jews wear a Star of David sewn onto their clothes.

Just imagine the worst projects you have ever seen in any movie or in real life.
now imagine it's even worse...........