Alicia Chapter Summaries

Life in the ghetto was subjected to death. Many took their own lives, and others tried to escape.

​According to dicitonaity.com, a ghetto is “a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships” (“Ghetto”). The five major ghettos were established in Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, and Lvov (“Holocaust Timeline: The Ghettos”). The Nazi Party used three different types of ghettos to isolate Jews from society. The three types were closed, open, and reconstruction ghettos (“Types of Ghettos”). Closed ghettos were the most common and often had high mortality rates as they were closed off with stone or brick walls, wooden fences, and barbed wire. The largest ghetto, Warsaw, was a closed ghetto and had over 400,000 people in an area of 1.3 squared miles (“Holocaust Timeline: The Ghettos”). Open ghettos had no physical barriers, but restrictions on entering and were often only in small towns used for temporary housing before relocating to a larger, often closed, ghetto. The majority of open ghettos were located in small towns, and in the countries of Poland, the occupied Soviet Union, and Transnistria. Lastly, deconstruction ghettos were tightly sealed off and only

In the book, Night, the two reasons why Jewish people would not accept their fate because they were surrounded by loved ones and their community. Self-consciously denying they're fate, in the ghetto everything was the same as before, children playing, running, neighbors having joy, and fun.

But it was already too late. She carried on about the crematoriums where many men, women and children were to be turned to ash after being killed. Everyone thought she was suffering from dehydration and malnutrition and was delirious. But before they knew what

The novel “Daniel’s story” takes place in the devastating time of the Holocaust. Daniel was a 17 year old boy , who kept his happiness photographed. His life has been a catastrophe being a jew in the times of the world war 2. As he takes us through his atrocious past , we have come to known a new character named Rosa. Rosa had pale skin, bright red hair, freckles,bold blue eyes thin lips which wore an awkward smile.

However, this would all change due to the brave individuals in one Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto was home to nearly 445,000 in 1941 and measured about 1.3 square miles (Meed). This Ghetto was by far one of the largest in population during the Holocaust. The Warsaw Ghetto was eventually going to be “liquidated” as nearly 1,000 Jews were loaded on trains to be liquidated each day (Goss). Throughout 1942 the Warsaw Ghetto was slowly “liquidated” and by the end of that year, it left 55,000 Jews in that camp nearly 80% of the Ghetto's original population (Goss). Many who were left in these Ghettos were without their family and all alone. Guilt spread and many felt responsible for not saving their loved ones. This guilt would turn into resistance and lead to the creation of groups such as ZOB, which translates to the Jewish Fighting Organization, and ZZW, which translates to the Jewish Military Union. These organizations gathered weapons to fight back against the Nazi regime. By 1943 Nazi officials ordered the transfer of 8,000 more residents of the Warsaw Ghetto. This would lead to the very first resistance in January of that year. When guards came to collect Jews, many openly attacked these guards and even hid so as not to be taken. By the end of four days, the guards left with only 5,000 Jews. This was seen as a success for those who lived there and spread the idea of resistance

The most memorable genocide constructed abruptly by German Nazis left both Jewish and German-Jewish residents of Poland in a whirl of destruction. 1933 had been the year that changed the lives of billions, but one young lady by the name of Stefania (Fusia) Podgorska managed to save thirteen, including herself along with her young sister. Upon moving to Przemysl and working a steady job as a grocer, ghettos in Poland had begun to be invaded, and her mother and eldest brother were not too lucky. Podgorska’s family had been sent to Germany for forced labor, like the rest of the Jewish community in that vicinity. While still without question, going through a rough patch at the grocery store, oddly enough, she had also been relieved simply because

The police say that Natalie Servantes met her death while chasing the tow truck. She was a mother of a 10-year-old son. She was chasing the tow truck trying to get its driver to stop towing her car. During the scuffle, the doilies underneath one of the vehicles caught her purse. It is then that she got caught up, along with her purse.

were still alive. One of these times Alicia was taken for dead and put onto a wagon with

The Nazi’s considered ghettos to be roundup centers. These ghettos made it easier for the Jews to be exterminated. These round up centers lasted anywhere from a few days up to a few years. In this time slave labor was very common and some Jews were brutally beaten. The ghettos were considered a major step in the process of separating and destroying Europe’s Jews.

In the Warsaw Ghettos surviving was nearly impossible. The Jews lived in very confined spaces that were around 1.3 square miles and seven to eight people resided in each incredibly compact room. 146,000 people were forced into one square kilometre. Due to the lack of food and diseases, from 1940 to the middle of 1942, 83,000 Jews passed away. In April 1941, the mortality rate reached 6,000 deaths per month. The illnesses spread mostly because of the small spaces and lack of sanitation. Typhus, spread through the dirty water and food; it was a very common cause for death in the Warsaw ghetto. The dead naked bodies were thrown out similarly to garbage, with no respect. In the winter, none of the Jews had any source of warmth, as the Germans

the city, and the small suburb of Watts turned into a black ghetto inside of a single

    The Holocaust is a very known event.  The Holocaust was the genocide of Jews by the German Nazi Party. The Holocaust lasted from 1941-1945. One significance at this time period was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that began on April 19, 1943. German soldiers, along with German police officers, went into the ghettos to deport any remaining inhabitants (“Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”). Although the Hitler and the Nazi Party felt like deporting Jews from their homes was right, the people of the Warsaw Ghettos was not going down without a fight. Events led to the uprising, and many events occurred during the uprising, but this was still a horrific period and no one should have to experience what the Jews of Warsaw experienced.

Turning on the engine, Marlene drove down the street, before she realized it she down her mother’s street. Parking in the driveway, she hesitated to get out of the car and listened to the radio. Weeping as the announcer spoke of the murder of Katherine Lincoln, which

Kimberly is from the island of Haiti, she moved to the states at the age of ten years old. She lived in Queens, New York with her step