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JEWISH GHETTOS

KELCIE ROPER

Throughout the nineteenth century, the Jewish population have always been targets of prejudice, and they have always been misunderstood.

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Between World War one and World War two, the Nazi had found a way to control and segregate Jews in places called Ghettos where disease, starvation, and murder was an everyday occurrence.

These ghettos were a phase in a long line of persecution, some had stopped trying to fight the injustice and merely tried to cope.

Nazis established a total of 356 ghettos in Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic states, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungry between 1939 and 1949. Most of the occupants that lived in a ghettos lived in the local area.

Most Ghettos were enclosed by a wall, the wall was either stone, brick or wood. The Nazi were so determined to enclose Jews in these ghettos that they even used a chain fence topped with barbed wire.

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Every ghettos that was ever built was built by the people that were soon gong to live and suffer on the inside; Jews. They were forced to build and complete the wall by force

Ghetto life was wretched. After the Jews were deported into the ghettos they learned that death was cruel and could come at any second.

Most people that lived in a ghetto died from starvation, the Nazi soldiers guarding the ghetto would give out food (mainly bread that the Jews made when they worked) in rations.

These rations could come once a week, and sometimes one every two weeks. The average a person consumed was 1,125 calories a day inside the ghettos, defiantly not enough to live a healthy life.

Some died from disease; the ghettos were so unsanitary because people were dying left and right, and the Germans would not let them burry the deceased so they would end up abandoned on the streets.

There was also overcrowding that left the ghettos unsanitary, with so many people and so little space sickness was extremely rampant.

An average ghetto could house anywhere from 10,000 all the way to 400,000.

Warsaw Ghetto
Before WWI Warsaw was the center of Jewish life and culture but following the invasion on Poland, Warsaw was attacked by air and artillery bombardment, German troops soon entered Warsaw after its surrender.

Less then a week later October 12, 1940 the Germans decreed the establishment of a Ghetto in Warsaw.

The wall surrounding this ghetto was eleven miles long, and ten feet tall. Warsaw was one of the biggest ghettos in Europe containing 400,000 residents and all 400,000 people lived in a 1.3 square mile radius, meaning 7.2 people per room.

Lodz

The first Polish ghetto to be sealed off from everyone was the Lodz Ghetto, it was closed off in 1940 and 164,000 people lived in a total of 48,100 rooms.

The area where Lodz was located was the industrial center of prewar and with a population of 665,000 only one third of them were Jews.

In early September 1942 (two years after the ghetto was established) the Nazi demanded that all children and elderly people be surrendered to the German force after many Jews refused to give up their family members that German authorities lost all patients with the people and went in and removed them by force.

During the next ten days 20,000 children and old people were deported to a death camp in Chemo where none were reported to have survived.

Two years later when Soviet troops showed up for the rescue out of 164 hundred thousand only 877 Jews emerged out of the ghetto.

Liquidation Of All Jewish Ghettos
The order to completely get ride of any standing ghettos in Germany came on June 11, 1943.

This meant that sending Jews who could work to labor camps, killing the rest, and destroying the ghetto all together. Death camps and death marches were killing thousand upon thousands daily after they started the liquidating.

The reasoning behind this was to try and keep what the Nazi people had done from the outside world. This was the ending for hundreds of ghettos.