How Did The Nazis Build The Ghettos

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”).

The holocaust was a very horrific event that took place in the early 1930s that most people still remember to this day. Yet most people don’t know about the Ghettos and what happened behind there gated homes. The ghettos were first made in October of 1940 so germans established the ghettos just to keep jews in a place where they can be watched constantly. Diseases were one of the main reasons that made the Ghettos such a dreadful place to live. Most of the diseases in the ghettos were causes of poor living conditions.

Living in the ghetto was tough for the people because "hard labor(ing), over crowding, and starvation were the dominant features of life" and as a result "20 percent of the ghetto's population died." ("Lodz"). The Nazi's didn't care who died. It must have been that bad for about 20% of the population to die because of starvation and crowding. Most of the workers in the ghetto worked in the German Factories and received barely any food ration and they didn’t have any running water or a sewer system which made life even harder than not having enough food.

They are very over populated and there is barley any room for any person that would have to live there. A lot of the time the people were forced to give up expensive items that were in their home. The houses were also surrounded around the perimeter by sharp barbed wire. And were also forced to stay within their own houses with strangers for days on in at points. Living in the ghettos would be a very demoralizing thing, somehow though the people in the village still kept their hopes up.

According to the Cambridge dictionary a ghetto is: “an area of a city, especially a very poor area, where people of a particular race or religion live closely together and apart from other people”. However the term "ghetto" originates from the name of the Jewish quarter of Venice, created in 1516, so we can say that the ghettos of Jews during World War II are not a new idea of the Nazis, since ghettos of Jews exist since the Middle Ages. During the Second World War, the ghettos were isolated neighborhoods of the rest of the urban fabric by barbed wire or a wall, in which the Germans forced the Jewish population to live in miserable conditions. The ghettos isolated the Jews by separating them from the non-Jewish population and the neighboring

In order to keep Jews away from the German citizens, the Nazis had to have a holding place for the Jews, and that’s what ghettos were. The Jews were forced into the ghettos because the Nazis wanted to enclose them (Byers 70) from their German neighbors (Byers 64). They also were put in ghettos from fleeing from prosecution, and because the government made laws that said Jews had to go to ghettos (Steele 13). The ghetto also provided natural death and forced labor from the Jews (Byers 73) and was during the emigration of the Jews (Lace 74). These ghettos helped the Nazis get more and more Jews without looking for them everytime the concentration camps got empty.

On Hitlers birthday Himmler decided to clear out the ghetto in only three days but the Jews weren’t gonna give up that easy so a big fight went on. Many Germans and Jews were killed and many injured but eventually the Germans decided to burn the Ghetto(“The Warsaw Ghetto”). After Warsaw prisoners started to decrease everything was changing. Jews started fighting back they used to hide in places that were ruined and when a German police came by they would attack. There was still about 20,000 prisoners living in Warsaw when it was starting to go down(“Warsaw”).

The Nazis created a ton of Ghettos,which were very small and had terrible living conditions. People were starving due to the little amount

So they sent the Jews to killing centers (Deportations). The Nazis final solution was to deport and murder 11 million Jews (Deportations). The first ghetto built was in 1939 and “28,000 people had previously resided” (Blohm 11). To transport the Jews to the ghettos, Nazis would put them into rail cars and cattle cars

During the Holocaust, Jews were forced into closed off portions of cities in order to separate them from the German race, protect society from them, and weaken them (Allen 37). There was, however, a deeper meaning to this: it was the Nazis goal to find an easy way to control the Jews while they decided what exactly they were going to do with them, meaning they whether they were going to kill them, banish them, or use them for some other twisted purpose (Ghettos). The first one of the ghettos used in the Holocaust was established as of October 8, 1939, and was located in the city Piotrkow Trybunalski in Poland (Blohm 11). However, ghettos used to separate Jews from the rest of society had been in use since the thirteenth century and had only

Nazis forced Jews to the ghettos to isolate unwanted people (MacKay 21). The Jews were also moved to the ghettos as a mean to segregate them, at the act of anti-Semitism (Ghettos). The ghettos were the Nazis first plan to eliminate the Jews (MacKay 25). Jews were moved to the ghettos as Nazis invaded a country (Yeatts 12). The ghettos were created in the late 1930s and early 1940s (MacKay 26).

More than 400 ghettos were created throughout Europe during World War II. Although some were open for years, most were established to be temporary. Ghettos allowed the Nazis to have control over the Jews, making it easier to gather Jews together, and eventually send them to concentration camps. Separation was a key step to Hitler’s ultimate goal; to create the “perfect race” and demolish the Jew. Sometimes they were sealed off by barbed wire, or even guards.

Life in the ghetto was subjected to death. Many took their own lives, and others tried to escape.

Around this time the Nazis came up with the term “The Final Solution” This meant to have all Jewish people segregated and put into ghettos, limiting their freedom and lives. People were evicted from their properties and also from their business just because they were Jews, and they were put in the “ghettos”. Life in the ghettos was unbearable and overcrowding. Specially when they have ten families living in one small apartment. They were also limited on the food that they could buy, since Nazis did not let them buy enough food for them and their family they were only aloud to buy small amounts, they were trying to make the Jewish starve. Jewish kids also sneak out through small openings in the ghetto walls to smuggle food, but if they got caught they were going to be severely punished. The housing inside ghettos were unsanitary specially when plumping broke down, and human waste was thrown in the streets along with garbage and caused contagious diseases that spread rapidly in the ghettos. Many people died every day in the ghettos because of the terrible conditions they lived and some

Nazis put people in concentrations camps because Hitler hated certain types of people. A concentration camp is a small place where a large number of people are held where they have to work and they are murdered. This led to a big conflict and a mass murder. They lived in bad conditions like wooden stable barracks that were very uncomfortable and very crowded small areas. The Jews had very bad sleeping conditions too. At the concentration camps there were many sicknesses that killed people. They were starved and weak because they did not have enough to eat. Jewish people were killed in many different disgusting ways, if they didn’t die from sickness.