Argumentative Essay Concerning The Ghetto

Definition of Ghetto The word Ghetto is a term that is used to describe where a person is from, or the type of person they are. All around the world the word ghetto is used, and all around the world it has the same negative meaning. Mostly a derogatory word to some, but to others ghetto is a word of pride and respect in the streets. It’s a word loosely used among younger individuals to identify where they are from, or the type of lifestyle they live.

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

The book The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century by Robert Roberts gives an honest account of a village in Manchester in the first 25 years of the 20th century. The title is a reference to a description used by Friedrich Engels to describe the area in his book Conditions of the Working Class. The University of Manchester Press first published Roberts' book in the year 1971. The more recent publication by Penguin Books contains 254 pages, including the appendices. The author gives a firsthand description of the extreme poverty that gripped the area in which he grew up. His unique perspective allows him to accurately describe the self-imposed caste system, the causes and effects of widespread poverty, and the

In the mid 1930s heading into the the mid 1940s, The Nazis created harsh living conditions for Jews living in Europe. The Nazis, lead by Adolf Hitler, were an right wing group that took control of Germany and eventually expanded to the other European countries around them including Poland and Austria. Using the Nuremberg laws in 1935, the Nazis began removing Jewish people from everyday society. Four years later in 1939, Jews were forced to live in Ghettos that were overcrowded and barely maintained. Not long after in 1945, The “final solution” was implemented. Innocent Jewish men, women and children were shipped in train cars to Concentration camps. The conditions in these train cars were brutal. Passengers would go days without water, food

The Holocaust, one of the cruelest acts of humanity. Men, children, and women were persecuted due to their religious beliefs by Hitler and his Nazis Soldiers. Most people believe they have basics rights as humans, that they are born with. The prisoners of war in Eliezer Wiesel's memoir, Night, were dehumanized brutally by being disinfected, tattooed, and stripped by the Nazis throughout the Holocaust for being Jewish. They were not treated with any respect and were not treated like humans.

        Donald Goines's lived the majority of his life either on the streets of the ghetto or in jail-because he was supporting himself and his heroin addiction by taking part in many illegal activities. During the last of his many prison terms, Goines finally found his way out of having to rely on crime for his way of living. He did this by writing about his life on the streets. His first two books, Whoreson and Dopefiend, were actually written during his last prison term. One critic of Goines, his biographer Eddie Stone, says the following about these books: "Whoreson, like most of Donald Goines's books, is autobiographical . . . . Donald wrote Dopefiend from personal

On a cold fall morning, hundreds of Jewish families woke up to be told that they were to come with the Nazis and that they would be leaving their homes. No explanation, no clue as to where they are going to end up, they bagged up their necessities. The mothers and fathers carried bags upon bags of things that they believed that they were going to get to keep. The children cried, the mothers trembled in fear, while the fathers tried to hold their families together. Out on the cold streets they went, to wait. The Nazis were mean, strict, and rude. Telling the not to move or talk, having them stand never giving them a break. Basically treating them like a dog they were trying to teach a new trick. They taunted and made fun of them and laughed at their looks.

​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

During the Holocaust, when Jews were taking masse to concentration camps, the sole focus within the camps was the utility of members. Healthy Jews were to be used routinely for labor. Sickly ones were far more likely to be executed on the spot. Jews were hanged in the center of the camp and left there for days. Others including their family members and lifelong friends would be forced to walk past their bodies again and again. During this tragic time many

I was hit. I fell to the ground and stumbled to get back up. The glaring soldiers snarled, “Get back to your job,” the most frightening Nazi kicking me in the stomach one last time.

Warsaw ghetto uprising commenced after German troops and the police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants on 19th July 1943. By May 16th, the uprising had been crushed and the ghetto lay in ruins. The surviving ghetto residents were deported to killings camp or concentration camps. This lead to a number of Jewish clandestine self-defense organizations to be formed called Jewish combat organization. Christopher Browning utilizes the loaded evidence of the nearly 300 survivors of Starachowice labor camp in Poland where the survivors were deported. He records the experiences of the Jewish detainees, the neighboring poles and the Nazi authorities to create a frightening history to one of the many dimensions of the Genocide. Institutions which have harnessed video testimonies from the few remaining Holocaust survivors are struggling with how to continue their goal of educating and commemorating the history of the genocide. Many of this video evidence of the holocaust have been utilized as an intervention by institutional practice and history for their own records. Yet, these testimonies are limited in scope as they are shaped not just by

It all happened so fast...the Ghetto, the deportation,the sealed cattle car. Both Kristina Chiger and Pavel Friedman wanted freedom from the Nazi’s. Pavel was held hostage in the Ghetto. He wasn't allowed to leave. Kristina on the other hand went and hid the sewer for 14 months. Pavel unfortunately died in the Ghetto. This all happened in the year of 1942. The Germans did not want the Jewish. Kristina lived in the sewers for 14 months.

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.

. Whilst they were generally free to come and go within the towns in which they pleased until the mid-19th century there were special Jewish places called "Jewish towns" in many larger Polish towns and cities.

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