Why Did The Nazis Move To The Ghettos

The Nazis' purpose in building these camps was to carry out the systematic murder of Jews as part of the Final Solution. Permanent gas chambers were made in these camps. No selections were performed in these camps. As the trains arrived men, women, and children were sent straight to the chambers. Approximately 1,700,000 Jews were murdered in these extermination camps.

Unable to find a solution of how to deal with this many Jews, the Nazis experimented with gathering them all into one place called ghettos. During 1940 they organized Jewish ghettos in the cities of Poland, the biggest of them being Warsaw. Many starved in the ghettos and close to the ghettos were labour camps, many died from doing to much physical work, but the Nazis did not mind as there were many more to take their place. In 1941 the Einsatzgruppen moved into Russia behind the German armies to round up and kill Jews.

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.

To eliminate the Jewish people, Hitler shipped them off to the east and mass shipped them to Madagascar using ships from the defeated British navy. He also let them “run away” to North and South America, anything to get rid of them. At one point of time he eventually got fed up and wanted to get rid of the Jewish people faster. To do this he placed those of the Jewish descent into Ghettos, there were almost 6 million Jews alone in the ghettos along with many other undesirables. From there they were either put into labour camps, holding camps, or most commonly extermination camps.

​According to dicitonaity.com, a ghetto is “a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships” (“Ghetto”). The five major ghettos were established in Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, and Lvov (“Holocaust Timeline: The Ghettos”). The Nazi Party used three different types of ghettos to isolate Jews from society. The three types were closed, open, and reconstruction ghettos (“Types of Ghettos”). Closed ghettos were the most common and often had high mortality rates as they were closed off with stone or brick walls, wooden fences, and barbed wire. The largest ghetto, Warsaw, was a closed ghetto and had over 400,000 people in an area of 1.3 squared miles (“Holocaust Timeline: The Ghettos”). Open ghettos had no physical barriers, but restrictions on entering and were often only in small towns used for temporary housing before relocating to a larger, often closed, ghetto. The majority of open ghettos were located in small towns, and in the countries of Poland, the occupied Soviet Union, and Transnistria. Lastly, deconstruction ghettos were tightly sealed off and only

Nazis saw the use of gas to murder over population as a solution to their problem. They began liquidating the ghettos and transferring all Jewish occupants to concentration camps. As well, the Nazi Army moved through Europe and began exterminating the Jewish population of the territories conquered by firing squads, by loading them on trains to concentration camps, or forced marches across the vast land of ruins.

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.”

Jews were forced to move to ghettos because Nazis wanted the Jews to be separate from the non-Jews, especially the ‘pure-blooded’ Aryans. Nazis did not want Aryans to be tainted by the Jews (Allen 37). Nazis also believed that Jews were enemies of Germany, so they wanted the Jews to leave. When the Jews didn’t leave, the Nazis decided to move the Jews (Rossel 30).

More than 30,000 Jews were arrested to go to these ghettos. Once they had everything ready for all of the undesirables. SS guards were hired to do the dirty work of putting all of the prisoners to do forced labor until they died. No one cared how all of the undesirables were treated. It became an amusement to watch one die or get killed. Considering that's all they wanted was for all the innocent people to die. Every Day would be the same watching friends and families die, working for the Nazi getting nothing in return, digging their own graves, and only getting one cup of black coffee with soup that was just broth a day. Women even got raped by SS guards during this time considering the women were separated from the men to different camps. No one did anything to stop it because of the fear of death. In 1939 the Nazi had figured out a way to make sure there will never be a Jew again they called it the final

When people think of the word ghetto today they think of an impoverished area of a city. The ghettos of World War II have a similar but nonetheless different definition. The ghettos of World War II were small parts of cities sectioned off to keep Jews in a confined area before eventual extermination. The Jews held there were more than just impoverished like today’s residents of ghettos. They were starved, beaten, and overworked. Ghettos were seen as just a step to Hitler’s final solution, or the extermination of Jews from Nazi occupied territory. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in Nazi occupied Europe. It held 400,000 Jews in 1.3 square miles. From the Warsaw Ghetto only 11,500 Jews survived. The Warsaw Ghetto was a place that

This was the Nazi’s policy to murder Jews in Europe. The Nazis believed that the Aryan German race were superior to Jews, which were a threat to German community. There were however other victims including the Roma(Gypsies), disabled, Slavic, Jehovah’s witnesses, war prisoners, etc. Ghettos were created to segregate the Jews from the rest of the world. There were three different types of ghettos; closed, open and destruction. Most ghettos were temporary, but some lasted for several years. Inside the ghetto people were forced to wear badges to be easily identified. Many died inside the ghetto from either disease, or starvation. The ghettos also were used to temporarily hold Jews, and they would later be deported to either a concentration camp or a killing center (ushmm.org).

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

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

        Soon after World War II started, The Nazis created places such as the ghettos, concentration camps, and labor camps where they placed the millions of jews that they captured throughout the war. Those camps were in horrid living conditions and a lot of the jews were unable to make it out alive. Families were separated, people forced into harsh working conditions,

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