GHETTOS AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS

GHETTOS

• It was highly guarded.
• There were many diseases
• They were crowded all together
• Located in urban areas.

GHETTOS

• Millions of Jews died in these ghettos.
• Stayed here before they went to concentration camps
• There had harsh living conditions.
• They were short of supplies.

CONDITIONS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

• The inmates had to work for their food in wages.
• They died from exposer and overwork.
• They used gas chambers and crematories.
• They were stripped of every valuable possession.

CONDITONS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

• At the largest concentration camp 8,000 Jews died daily.
• Many Jews were burned in furnaces.
• They had many other punishments.
• They even stored the dead bodies in cellars.

LOCATION

• Some camps were in Germany & Soviet Union
• 20,000 camps were built between 1933 & 1945
• First concentration camps were in Germany
• They were mostly located in rural areas.

LOCATION

• Germany, Poland, Netherlands, & Australia
• One of the biggest camps was Aushwitz
• It was located in Oswiecim, Poland

LIFE IN THE GHETTOS

• Where Jews stayed before concentration camps
• Had to wear badges outside the walls.
• Shortage of food

LIFE IN THE GHETTOS

• Typically walled with gates
• Within, had their own culture & courts
• Shortage of housing
• Disease was very rampant
• The last Ghetto was in 1870

THE HOLOCAUST

• Millions of people died during the holocaust
• It was a tragic time
• Learning about it will help from it occurring again