Ghetto Documentary Analysis

According to Merriam-Webster a ghetto is, “ a part of a city in which members of a particular group or race live usually in poor conditions (ghetto).” This paper will focus, however, on what daily life was like in the ghettos, what Jews did or didn’t do to prevent their fate, and how Holocaust survivors are doing now. I chose this topic because when Elie and his family were living in the ghetto in the beginning of Night, it seemed as though they had plenty of opportunities to escape that they didn’t take. It also seemed much closer to pleasant than I imagined, and I was curious to see if that was completely true.

Even though the movie shows the concentration camps and the horrors that the Jews experienced, it does it in a way that would be appealing to all audiences. It isn?t too graphic that some students would not enjoy the movie. Benigni never shows anyone in the concentration camps being beaten, but makes it clear that it happens by word of mouth of the prisoners. He incorporates the crematory and makes it sound like a horrible place, but never shows anyone being put into the furnace. This way, the audience can be aware that the crematory was a horror, but never have to actually witness it first-hand. This would make it so that all audiences can watch the movie and still get the full effect of what went on in the concentration camps.

explores the phenomenon of ethnic residential segregation. This is the fact of a person residing in a neighborhood composed of others of their same ethnicity. According to Borjas this a choice made by individual households. Several outside factors influence this choice such as the household's economic opportunities as well as the sum of the skills of the ethnic group that household belongs to. Borjas claims that there are ethnic "spillovers". These human capital externalities determine the sorting ethnic groups across neighborhoods.

Ghettos were districts (often enclosed) that the Jews had to live in. The population For the Jewish grew in the ghettos and they had lived under Very horrible , miserable conditions. there were three types of ghettos: open ghettos, closed ghettos, and destruction ghettos.There were at least 1000 ghettos located in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone. Most of the ghettos were located in the outskirts of cities and towns but, only the major ghettos were located in the cities; Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minks. The Jews were Ordered to wear identification badges or arm bands. They had to work forced labor, German authorities did not hesitate to kill the jewish not carry out the work forced labor. German SS and police gathered up and took small minority of Jews from the ghettos to labor-camps and

     By definition, a ghetto is an area, usually characterized by poverty and poor living conditions, which houses many people of a similar religion, race or nationality. They served to confine these groups of people and isolate them from the rest of the community because of political or social differences. However, the Jewish ghettos established throughout Europe were more than just a way for the Germans to isolate the Jewish community. They were the first step in making Hitler’s final solution possible. The ghettos were the means of organizing all of the Jews

During the holocaust, the creation of ghettos was the key step in the Nazi process of separation, processing and ultimately destroying Europe’s Jew’s from the rest of the population. They were designed to be temporary, some lasted only a few days or weeks, others for several years. The vast majority of ghetto inhabitants died from disease or starvation, were shot, or were deported to killing centres. Larger cities had closed ghetto’s, with brick or stone walls, wooden fences, and barbed wire defining the boundaries. Guards were placed strategically at gateways and other boundary openings. Jews were not allowed to leave the Jewish residential districts under penalty of death. It was very cold in the ghettoes and diseases spread quickly.

This tells readers how concentration camps were used, who they were used on, and why they were used. Concentration camps were used to kill Jews, either they worked or starved to death. Some even got killed on the spot. It explains how not all people who were killed were Jews some were gypsies. Anybody they thought was a Jew was killed. Men and teenage boys were sent to work, women, children and older people were killed using gas chambers. Because they were titled unfit for work. This page can help a reader if they want to know more about concentration camps. They have a picture of people on the “Beds” at the concentration camps.

The Jewish Ghettos were like very small, compacted villages. A majority of all ghettos were one mile by one mile large. The Jews were forced out of their homes without much warning, and taken to this new strange place. There were so many people, and the German government wasn’t willing to give up any land that they didn’t have to, and this resulted in many people being packed into small rooms together. There was an average of 7.2 people per room. (Think about the size of your bedroom, in bizarre cases even half that size) Food was very scarce in such a high population area. The government bought food in bulk, and they were given food for working. The people that were ‘High up there’, or had an important job in the ghetto, received around 1,000

Theresienstadt became a ghetto where most of the well-known Jews of Europe would reside happily for the remainder of the war. Theresiensadt, now a beautiful town filled with the most prosperous Jews of Europe became the set for a well-planned propaganda film that the Nazi’s used to deny the final solution. The ghetto had become a scene for a sick play for the worlds viewing.

The people were being told that the Jews were being moved someplace safe. In reality they were going to be sent to the forced labor camps so they could work them to death or round them up and throw them in the gas chambers. To make sure that there was no suspicion the Nazi party made propaganda videos to show the public that the Jews were being taken care of. Around 1941 Germany turned on its allies, the Soviet Union, and mobile killing units called Einsatzgruppen, carried out mass shootings as they took over more of Soviet lands (Timeline pg.3). The height of the Holocaust took place around 1942 because that is when the Nazi party intensified its pursuit of the “Final Solution” (Timeline pg.3). The “Final Solution” was Hitler’s plan, and the main focus of the Holocaust, to wipe all Jews off the face of Europe. During this time there was a millions of Jews being deported and killing centers were becoming more

The quality and isolation of these ghettos varied wildly. Nazis always administered the formed ghettos, but (at least in the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust) some Jewish quarters were actually situa ted in open, rural settings (typically in Ukraine) that allowed for a large amount of interaction with other, non-

The “Jewish Ghetto” was for the Jewish residents and since they didn’t want any part of the process of having Jews temporarily stay in the “Ghetto’s” a pleasant stay, they were kept very hideous. Ghetto’s were usually located in small areas outside of the cities they lived in. Some were often closed off my walls (or they had open ghettos), barbed- wire fences, or gates. They contained small homes and stores (these stores would be the only way they could get supplies). Sometimes, more than one family was kept in the apartments so they were extremely overcrowded and unsanitary.

A closed ghetto consists of closed walls and/or barbed wired fences. The closed ghettos provoked crowding and germ filled environments. This type of ghetto suffered large quantities of starvation, constant diseases, extreme winter weather, housing without heat, and little to no city services leading to major epidemics that made the mortality rate sky rocket. Closed ghettos was really the most to occur. Open ghettos were indeed the opposite. The open ghettos didn’t have walls or fences although they had limitations on entering and leaving. They were located mainly in German- occupied Poland and Soviet Union. This type of ghetto was just a little better than the closed ghetto, but it still didn’t make it right. With no walls they could see more than just barbed wire and bricks. Yes, they existed but not for long. Sooner than lather the Germans liquidated the ghetto, basically destroying it. the destruction ghettos were not at all lenient. They were closed tight and didn’t stay long at all. Soon the prisoners were either deported or killed by shot two to six week after arrival. The destruction ghettos were located in Lithuania and Ukraine, both owned by the Germans. Life in the ghettos were unbearable and overly uncomfortable. So many families would occupy one apartment. Poor; plumbing caused waste to be put in the streets along with trash. If the people weren’t dying from disease hopping around the filthy streets, they were croaking from starvation. On purpose Germans would be petty and only allow Jews to purchase small portions of food. They were fed items such as breads, potatoes, and fat. Some people were lucky enough to sneak food into the ghetto. They would then trade and barter food for money or items they needed for their families. Other who were lucky enough rummaged through the streets begging and stealing food to get by and keep from starving. Many of

The ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe — primarily Poland — were often closed off by walls, barbed-wire fences, or gates. Ghettos were extremely crowded and unsanitary.

King of Rock n Roll, Elvis Presley, had a song in 1969 that took a drastic turn in theme from many of his other tunes relating to love, dancing and rock n roll. This song tells a tragic story which has very realistic connotations to the social problems of crime and poverty that were not only applicable to 1960s society but to our 21st century society. In this paper I will examine that song, titled “In the Ghetto”, highlight how the themes of the song relate to social disorganization, and further examine how the main character’s neighborhood takes the characteristics of a socially disorganized ecological environment perfectly.