Portrayal Of The Ghettos

The term ghetto, originally derived from Venetian dialect in Italy during the sixteenth century, has multiple variations of meaning. The primary perception of the word is “synonymous with segregation” (Bassi). The first defining moment of the ghetto as a Jewish neighborhood was in sixteenth century Italy; however, the term directly correlates with the beginning of the horror that the Jewish population faced during Adolph Hitler’s reign. “No ancient ghetto knew the terror and suffering of the ghettos under Hitler” (Weisel, After the Darkness 20). Under Hitler’s terror, there were multiple ghettos throughout several cities in numerous countries ranging in size and population. Ghettos also differed in purpose; some were temporary housing

​Contrary to popular belief, the use of ghettos began long before Hitler came to power in the early 1930s. On March 29th, 1516, the Republic of Venice ordered the Jewish population to live in the confined area of Ghetto Nuova. Ghetto Nuova was a filthy, crowded island that confined the Jewish population by closing the island off at night and surrounding it with patrols. During this era, Jewish people also faced discrimination, as they were ordered to wear a sign of identification such as a yellow hat or badge (“The Ghetto”). Furthermore, this discrimination and persecution of the Jewish people dispersed to other areas. In 1555, Pope Paul IV established Cum nimis absurdum, a papal law, that led to the creation of the Roman Ghetto. In the

The ghettos were used as a means to hold the Jews captive, and isolate what Heydrich had termed the “plague” until they could find a what to eradicate the problem. This made it appear that the Nazi’s were helping the Jews, and was a way to cover up the “final solution.”

First of all, the Nazis used false information about Jewish people and utilized negative Jewish stereotypes to legitimize the horrific acts of violence during the Final Solution. The Nazis were evil towards the Jews. Movies, newspapers, and posters were only some of the ways anti-semitic messages were thrown out into the public. A newspaper called Der Sturmer pumped out stories devoted to showing Germans how dirty Jews were (Marcovitz 15). Things like “Jews are immoral, indecent, dishonest, ugly, fat, not human, cannibalistic”, and “Jews eat their children and drink their blood”, were common headlines (Marcovitz 15). Jews were not humans. They were on the same level as bugs and needed to be exterminated from Germany and all of Eastern Europe. Also, stereotypes from 100’s of years ago were still alive and well. Jews were tax collectors a long time ago, and some people still hated them for it. Some people could not let go of old derogatory lies and the Nazis loved this. Hate towards the Jews was stronger than kindness and the Nazis fed off of this. If people saw the propaganda and the heard old stereotypes, then maybe they would hop on board with the Nazis.

When you hear the word ghetto what pops into your head? A poor slum of a town? Someone who is not socially correct? Well, when many survivors hear this word they hear pain and starvation among many other things. The Holocaust ghettos were destructive and depressing places, almost a holding tank for worse to come. But what went on in these gruesome “holding tanks” ?

public places such as, parks and civil service jobs. When World War two started, Jews were ordered to live within certain limited areas in cities called the ghettos, where they were forced in to small apartments, where they had to share the space with other families. Some ghettos had strict rules where Jews could only leave at certain times of the day but had to be back by the curfew, if they weren’t back by a certain time they would get killed and tortured by the Nazi soldiers. Each day the Nazis would order deportations which took about 1,000 Jews from the Ghettos each day on a train. The train then would take them away to concentration camps. To trick the Jews into going on the trains, the Nazi soldiers would tell them that they’re getting

During World War II, more than 400 ghettos were made because they needed to isolate the Jewish from the non-Jewish. These ghettos were established by the Nazi’s. There were three types of ghettos, closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The closed ghettos were usually Ghettos were first originated in Venice, Italy, where Jewish homes and businesses were restricted to a selected part of the city. Over the next 200 years, other nations started to have ghettos in them such as France, Croatia, and Poland, though by the late 1800s Jews were no longer legally required to live in them.

The motives behind the Jewish eradication were some believe to be the result of the specific historical context and some believe to be the original planned policy of Nazis since the takeover of power in 1933. Historically, there were a long history of conflict between Judaism and Christianity and there were also conflicts between Jews and non-Jews over social and economic relations. However, what made Nazis hatred to Jewish was racial and biological. Nazis believed that the Jews were biologically and racially struggle for dominance over the entire human race (Green, 2016). Jews were known as the traditional middleman minority in the Christian Feudal Europe who occupied trades. And during the time, the German economy was in tattered, while the Jews owned banks and the overall doing were better than them. Therefore Hitler believed

“The Jews were convinced that it couldn’t get any worse. The truth is that, to the very end, every stage was more difficult and more terrible. The dynamics of this development are the essence of horror” (Vashem, 2010). A ghetto is a part of a city where Jews were forced to live in horrendous conditions. Even though a ghetto was a transitional stage, it was still an atrocious place to be.

The Nazi regime intensified their anti-Jewish policy between 1939 and 1943 through “Situational Solutions,” building on the “Limited Solution” created between 1933 and 1939. The “Situational Solutions” focused primarily on the objectives of Ghettoization and mass murder, which both further isolated the Jewish communities, along with create a stepping stone in the early stages of final destruction. The Ghettoization gave the Nazi regime a place in which they could put the Jewish communities in order to segregate and isolate them from the German population. The culmination of the first ghettos started through the Nazi regime searching for ways to further “Germanize” the German state. Separating the Jews from the German population allowed for

“Confining Jews in the ghetto was not Hitler’s brainchild.” (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/) Religous or political leaders demanded segregation of Jews. Due to that fact ghettos become more common.The Nazi’s had built flower gardens, caes, and schools. They built them to demonstrate to their guest the humane

The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, considered "inferior," were a major risk to the Germans. They came up with a plan called “The Final Solution” to murder all the Jews in Europe. It all began with their leader, Adolf

There is masses of historical debate surrounding the progression of Jewish persecution by the Nazis, this often fuelled by ‘intentionalists’, who believe Genocide was indeed the intention of one man from the beginning, rather than the theories of the ‘moderate functionalists ‘, that reason that the persecution of the Jewish people was a progression of radical policy ,of an entire group of people, due to the perceived failings of the Nazis previous racial policies.

In the first place the Nazis excelled in instilling a fear factor into their citizens and their opponents who opposed them. An example of their fear tactics would be sending criminals or opponents into concentration camps where they would either be executed or tortured inside the camp. The Jewish people were the most hated group as the Nazis held a strong sense antisemítisim. The nazis made examples of Jewish people making them wear the Star of David on their chest and forcing them to live in certain quarters. The treatment of the Jews only grew worse over time as they were sentenced to ghettos and concentration

     Commenting on the famed Los Angeles ghetto in which he grew up, gangster rapper Ice Cube asserts, “If you ain’t never been to the ghetto, don’t ever come to the ghetto” (Cube, Ghetto Vet). But why are American ghettos filled with so much violence, drugs, and inopportunity? In John Singleton’s powerful drama Boyz N the Hood the harsh reality of youths growing up in South Central Los Angeles, a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant, is brought to life. Shot entirely on location in South Central LA, Boyz N the Hood presents its story with maximum honesty and realism. The movie is a prime example of how American ghettos are dead end environments with minute