The Warsaw Ghettos

On March 20, 1933 Dachua was one of the first camps established. Nazi doctors conducted experiments on twin prisoners to find out why and how to twins are made, so Hitler can breed twins to stop the Jewish “culture.” Auschwitz was the largest of all of the death camps and was also the cruelest: 1.1 million Jews were killed at this death camp. In these camps all of the Jewish prisoners had to share bunks with up to three or four people in each bunk without any pillows or mattresses or blankets; they just had to sleep on wooden crowded bunks in very gross, unsanitary rooms. All of the people in Nazi Germany were invading country after country with the goal to wipe out the whole Jewish population. The reason for this was Hitler demonized the Jewish population and made them seem like the whole reason that they were suffering in the war and had such a bad economy was all because of the Jews. When the Jews were taken into these camps, they would take all of their wedding rings, shoes, glasses, and if someone had a golden tooth they would yank it out with a pair of pliers right on the spot. The prisoners had to wear striped suits with a yellow star to indicate their religion. The German government first introduces mandatory badges in Poland on November, 1939. Jews that failed to wear this badge risked death. Every Jew was also tattooed with a

What happened to the Jews during the Holocaust was unthinkable; millions of people were persecuted. Jews were asked to vacate their homes and were shifted to specific areas in cities known as ghettos. In these ghettos, several families had to live under one roof in cramped and unhealthy manner. About 6 million Jews were sent to concentration camps. Jews were transported in freight trains to these camps under inhumane conditions, and many perished on the way. They were hardly given any food. They were also made to work long hours, some times 12 to 14 hours without a break. The Nazis did not spare women or children. According to estimates, the Nazis killed 1.2 millions Jewish children and thousands of gypsy and disabled

Have you ever been in a room so crowded you thought you might implode? Or been so sick you questioned if you were still alive? How about so hungry you felt as though you would shrivel up and simply cease to exist? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you may almost be able to imagine what life was like in the Jewish ghettos. There were ghettos before the Holocaust, the first being in Venice in the 16th century, there are ghettos today, and there will be ghettos in the future, but the Jewish ghettos of the Holocaust are by far the most prominent.

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

“No matter how much you revisit the past, there's nothing new to see,” ~ author unknown (“Deep Quotes”). People think they could change what happened during WWII and the Holocaust by revisiting it. In reality they can’t, they have to live with what happened in the past. For example, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto made a choice to start an uprising. However many times they look back it can’t change. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a deadly part of WWII that has many secrets that people don’t know with nothing being able to be changed.

Holocaust ghettos; these are the over looked places where the Jews, in Nazi controlled lands, awaited their future.

Life in the Ghetto was difficult, because they had small homes, lived on the street, lack of food, and children’s were orphans. The Nazis also created over 1,000 ghetto during the Holocaust (Thomson “The Ghetto”).

Jews were soon put into hard labor. In 1940, the Germans closed off part of Warsaw with a wall topped with barbed wire. Jews were forced to live inside these walls. On average, the were 7 Jews living in each room. Jewish organizations

Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding

Like sheep led to the slaughter; this is one of the most famous analogies used to refer to the Jews during the holocaust. The Jews were being systematically murdered, beaten, and abused day after day, and there was almost no refusal on their part. Almost no one fought back. This however was not the case in the Warsaw ghetto.

Many Jews across Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans. Many Jews did this by smuggling homemade weapons. The most famous attempt at resistance against the Germans was, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

In 1942 about 300,000 Jews were sent from Warsaw to Treblinka. Treblinka is a extermination camp When rumors a of mass murder in the killing center leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, a surviving group of mostly young people formed a group called the Z.O.B. (from the Polish name, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization). The Z.O.B., was led by 23-year-old Mordechai

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.

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

It all started between 1941 and 1943 concentration camps and ghettos was made to keep myself and all Jews of Eastern Europe captive to work to death or just be executed when they are captured. The Jews did have to fight back in someway which most ghettos and camps had underground resistance to fight back against the Nazis so our race wasn't whipped out. As I heard most of the uprisings wasn't successful but very few escaped from these ghettos and the camps, as I heard in my ghetto which is Warsaw ghetto. I have been living in the city of Warsaw for a couple of years I'm just one of the millions that is in the big city. Ever since World War 2 started we were all sent to a small part of Warsaw which was the ghetto and conditions of the ghetto