Ghetto Life Under the Nazis

Typhus is a disease that went through the concentration camps. The disease is spread by lice which is a bug that lives in hair usually on the head. (Auschwitz Voices pg.60) Most children were affected by the overcrowding which made it easier to catch typhus and they frequently died from it. Almost 30 percent of the population of Warsaw was packed into 2.4 percent of the city’s area which caused there to be enormous amounts of overcrowding which made it easier to contract diseases.(www.ushmm.Org) It can cause inflamed vessels, which in turn can cause a dramatic drop in blood pressure as well as internal bleeding. (www.share.com) Typhus, in particular was rampant and prisoners were marched out of the camps and into the ghetto for mass disinfections. Disinfection baths were established in certain areas like on Balonowa Street. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Diseases such as scabies, typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and tuberculosis were the main diseases. Many people had to wait in hour long lines, even in bad weather, to even see a doctor About six million to eight million people died during the Holocaust, because of these diseases and other events. Sanitation was another condition during the Holocaust. The concentration camps were nasty, disgusting, and dirty. Most toilets at the camps were overflowing on the floor, because of all of the people trying only to use about eight toilets on average per concentration

Ghettos were primarily created on the basis of low class Jewish neighborhoods. Ghettos such as the Warsaw Ghetto and the Łódź Ghetto caused thousands of deaths due to cramped and unsanitary living space. Large families lived in a tiny, crowded homes. The initial goal of the Nazi party for creating Ghettos were to dehumanize Jews and isolate them from the rest of the Germans. Ghettos created in Poland were developed for a specific reason according to the Nazi’s.

While in many places ghettoization only lasted a brief period of time, ghettos had a profound impact as they isolated Jews from society, served as a crucial role in Hitler’s Final Solution, and left thousands living in inhumane conditions.

During the Holocaust, the living conditions for the Jewish population were horrifying and unthought of. The lack of sanitary facilities meant they had to remove dirt and pests from clothing by waiting in a line that took up most of the day. The barracks that the prisoners slept in was in terrible conditions and the rooms were damp with leaky roofs (“Auschwitz…”). The health and how the jewish lived was no concern of the Nazi soldiers.

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.

This was the Nazi’s policy to murder Jews in Europe. The Nazis believed that the Aryan German race were superior to Jews, which were a threat to German community. There were however other victims including the Roma(Gypsies), disabled, Slavic, Jehovah’s witnesses, war prisoners, etc. Ghettos were created to segregate the Jews from the rest of the world. There were three different types of ghettos; closed, open and destruction. Most ghettos were temporary, but some lasted for several years. Inside the ghetto people were forced to wear badges to be easily identified. Many died inside the ghetto from either disease, or starvation. The ghettos also were used to temporarily hold Jews, and they would later be deported to either a concentration camp or a killing center (ushmm.org).

The ghettos were streets where Jewish people lived. The three main ghettos were Lodz, Warsaw, and Theresienstadt. It had horrible living conditions. They were non-sanitary, bad electricity, extremely crowded, and there was not enough food. Contagious diseases spread rapidly due to all of these bad conditions. Everyday children became orphaned, and many had to take care of younger

In 1939, Hitler was unsure of what he was going to do with the Jews; the Nazis were tossing around options and ideas with the goal of removing Jews from the population. The German invasion into Poland, allowed for the first ghetto, regarded as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews. Ghettos were enclosed, isolated urban areas designated for Jews. Living under strict regulations, with unthinkable living conditions, and crammed into small areas, the ghettos destroyed all hope of retaliating. In this paper, I will discuss what life would be like to be a Jew inside one of the 1,000 of ghettos within Poland and the Soviet Union. I will imagine myself a member of the Jewish council, describing the

70 years ago (Ochayon) a new Ghetto was established. The Germans built Ghetto’s to hold Jews before they could take them out to a camp. They could be taken to a Death camp, Work camp, or a concentration camp. All the camps had a different reasons for different Jews. The Ghetto was located in Warsaw, Poland and became the largest Ghetto in Europe. It was opened in September, 1939 (“Ghetto”). The German soldiers created it in Warsaw for a certain reason. Usually people think that the Germans build Ghetto’s to take up space in a town. Because Warsaw had the largest Jewish population in Europe pre World War II (Ochayon), they held Jews throughout Poland (“Ghetto”).

Ghetto disease was a syndrome caused by loss of hope and exhaustion. An example of this is:

Because of this overcrowding, disease was spread through the ghettos much faster

The Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto is a place that held many people in it. It was a place you would never want to go back to. You would never want to have a transfer there or anything. At that time it was one of the worst places you could probably possibly be (thesis).

Partisans were the few people who managed to scape from Nazi concentration camps and ghettos, or people that left their homes in order to join the resistance against the Nazis. They created resistance armies in the forests near to the camps and outside the ghettos. Even though partisans could be found in every Nazi occupied zone of Europe, there are three important dates and places to know when we talk about resistance during world war ll. The first one is January 21, 1942, United partisans organization in Vilna. The second one: January 1942 also, in France The creation of the Armee Juive. And the third one is in, July 20, 1941, the first sparks of resistance in the ghetto of Minsk. An approximate of 30,000 partisans fought back all around

In the war of World War two, life was hard when the Germans attack Denmark and was planning to liquidate the Ghetto. I will be comparing a poem to a story. The two people i'll be comparing and contrast Cristiana Chiger and Pavel Friedmann. Both people tried escape from the germans and death. Sadly the only place they could go was the sewer, but Pavel didn’t make it and was sent to death camp where he started his poem. On the other hand Cristiana made it to the sewer and stayed there for multiple months. This all happen just because they were Jewish. There choice was sewers or dieng. To die from your enemy or live in torture for months. Pour Cristiana had live in the sewer fourteen months straight. Now that you