Jewish Ghettos

When the Germans invaded Poland, they processed ghettos in several Polish cities, where Jews were in hiding. The living conditions in the ghettos were: hunger, disease, and overcrowding killed tens of thousands. The Germans transported Jews from all over occupied Europe to these ghettos, modeled after the ghettos the Catholic Church had established all over Europe since the Middle Ages.

When looking back at the Holocaust, the noun “paradise” may not be used to label Ghettos like Lódz or Warsaw. Adolf Hitler, the Führer of Germany, considered the Theresienstadt Ghetto a gift to the Jews because it was considered one of the more culturally freeing concentration camps. Even though this concentration camp was more lenient on the rules regarding cultural expression, the Jews transported there quickly found that it was still part of Hitler’s final solution of the Jewish question.

The ghetto’s were 1.3 square miles and were packed full of Jews not allowing them much room. They were mostly set up in cities where Jews were already living. The Germans usually chose the most run down part of these cities to hold the Jews in. The ghettos were surrounded by barbed wire fences and gates, which were occupied by guards during curfew.

In 1944 a ghetto was built the next street over from were Irene Csillag lived. She had to go live in the ghetto with her family. Then they were deported and had to march until they were put on cattle cars. From there she went to Auschwitz-Birkenau and her, her mother and sister were sent to the right side. This meant they would work. Their heads were shaved and they were tattooed. They did jobs like cleaning toilets and working in kitchens. They were moved from camp to camp through out their time in the Holocaust. Then they were put on a boat by the Nazis and they thought they were all going to be thrown off. When they approached land they jumped off and the SS officers started to disappear. The British came and liberated the people that had

The Jews had to live in an area of housing known as a Ghetto. This is were the government took a group of Jews and put them into a dirty housing community. Disease outbreaks were quite frequent and deadly. Many people not only died from being sent away, but just from the diseases in the Ghettos. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, the ghettos were extremely dirty. Staying warm was very difficult during the freezing winter. There was a major food shortage that resulted in famine. Lots of Jews died of starvation. They had poor sanitation, with extreme over crowding causing people to have to share rooms and beds. Many places had ghettos that were had a barbed wire, brick and stone walls as their boundaries. Guards were placed at openings and gates of the ghettos.(Ghettos) The smallest ghetto held around 3,000 people. The largest ghetto, located in Warsaw, held around 400,000 people. Many of the people in the ghettos came from the local area or nearby. Around 1941, Jews were being deported from Germany to Poland to even further east. Jews were not allowed to leave the ghetto. If they did they would be killed on site. Gas vans were used in

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.

Jews were not allowed to leave or have any contact with the outside world (Ghettos: An Overview). Very soon after the Ghetto opened, barbed wire fences or 10ft walls topped with barbed wire were built. The Jews living in the Ghetto didn’t receive electricity, sanitary water, food, and medicine. It is estimated that about 100,000 Jews died in the Warsaw Ghetto and about 300,000 were sent to death camps and murdered. Many of the deaths in Warsaw was because of starvation and disease. By August 1941, more than 5,000 people a month succumbed to starvation and disease (Historical Film Footage). A big factor of why people were starving was that they were not receiving enough food rations. The rations for the Jews were barely enough to sustain life, at just 181 calories a day. That barely reaches the 10 percent of the normal requirements. If one had wanted really to restrict oneself to the official rations, then the entire population of the ghetto would have had

Theresienstadt, A gift from Hitler. A place of hope and happiness for Jews and Jewesses alike. Theresienstadt was somewhere they could wait the war out without fear until the shadow of Nazism passed. It was a place filled with the most prosperous artists and musicians, daily shows and operas, lectures and seminars, gardens and coffee shops. A place with grace and character. An entire town that was given to the Jews as a gift from the Fuehrer. A paradise for Jews. That is at least, what the Nazis wanted people to believe.

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

In January 1933, some 522,000 Jews by religious definition lived in Germany. Over half of these individuals, approximately 304,000 Jews, emigrated during the first six years of the Nazi dictatorship, leaving only approximately 214,000 Jews in Germany proper (1937 borders). The original reason for the ghettos were to control and hold captive the Jews that were in Germany eventually it just became the Nazi's long term racial policy. There are actually plenty types of ghettos i was surely shocked when i found this out. You have a "open" ghetto, you have a "closed" ghetto, and you have a "destruction" ghetto.

Massey and Denton argue that following the Kerner Commission report and the civil rights movement, the US passed the fair housing act of 1968, then largely abandoned policymaking on segregation: “by the end of the 1970s, residential segregation became the forgotten factor in American race relations.” Through the 1970s and 1980s, four causes for the persistence of poverty in urban ghettos were argued: culture, racism, economics, and welfare. All of these causes were debated extensively, but none of them considered segregation as a root cause of the problem of urban poverty. Massey and Denton reject the “culture of poverty” argument in favor of a “culture of segregation” - which enables all forms of racial oppression. “Until the black ghetto

You bring up a great comparison with mentioning Nazi's creation of ghettos. In my opinion, they are definitely the same thing. The United States was forcing them from their land and essentially taking away their identities. The United States justified all of the removals of Indians from their land by using the manifest destiny saying that it was their “God-given” right to do this. I don’t see how God would want this happening. It makes you wonder how the United States acted during this time period was any different then Hitler.

The Nazis were the most powerful force in Europe during the 1930’s under Hitler’s rule. Hitler was named chancellor on January 30, 1933, and soon after, he was preparing a new army for a reason that nobody knew. New phrases started appearing at the bottom of newspapers saying “the Jews are our misfortune”. The Jews soon realized that the Nazis had a plan, but they didn’t figure it out soon enough. The Nazis had no process of picking the Jews. They wanted all Jews dead at whatever cost. After being taken away from their families and friends by the Nazis, the Jews were then taken to a place called a “Ghetto”. It was a holding station for the Jews until they could transport them to the concentration camps. They would stay in the ghettos for two

Ghetto, the word so frequently and severely misused due to the lack of attention to its historical and social contexts. A word with a bevy of associations due to some of the characteristics of a ghetto. A ghetto arises partially due to the forced spatial enclosure of the group through de jure or de facto segregation, yet the enclosed group is ridiculed for something they have no control over. Effectively, the lack of information contributes to mindsets and behaviors that instill a prejudicial behavior against the affected group. As a means to deconstruct the definition of the word ghetto, four characteristics are attached to its makeup, “stigma, constraint, spatial confinement, and institutional encasement” (Wacquant). Although the ideology about ghettos are negative and irrefutably misinformed, the seclusion actually has the potential for cultural enrichment and the ability to minimize institutional discrimination. Due to the disentangling of race and race based discrimination from many policies in the twentieth century, the ghetto was dissolved back to the slums in principal. This essay will attempt to explain some of the historical and contemporary context of a ghetto, the components of a ghetto and how these meanings have modern applications.

Ghettos were built in Germany and Poland to contain Jews in a small area so they could control the Jews.. The Jews were treated unfairly in the ghettos.” Warsaw had a prewar Jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted about 30 percent of the city had a total population (United States Holocaust Museum). The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that kept the Jews from the non-Jewish residents of the city. While many other Jewish members went to the Warsaw ghettos camps without fight some decided to to hide in the ruins of buildings and attack the Nazis and start up a resistance. The Warsaw Ghetto was awful in many ways such as how the Nazis kept more than ten thousand Jews in one small cramp death camp or Ghetto, forcing them into physical