The Ghettos

About the ghettos

• Ghettos were neighborhoods made for Jews.
• They were first established in 1939- 1942.
• Ghettos were very unsanitary. 

Diseases and Starvation

• A lot of the Jews died from typhus, and typhoid.
• Typhus is a disease from fleas and lice they caught.
• Typhoid is a type of salmonella a lot of them got from the food.
• Most Jews died of starvation, rations were very small amounts.

food rations

• They hardly had any food to eat.
• They got 180 grams of bread per day.
• 220 grams of sugar per month.
• 1 kg of jam and 1/2 kg of honey per month.

killing centers

• While living in the ghettos the jews would be sent to killing centers.
• after the ghettos, if you survived you went to a concentration camp.
• Either you were killed right then and there or were sent off to be killed.

children of jews

• A lot of children got killed instead of adults.
• They were the main smugglers for food or items they'd sneak in.
• Children that were jews had to hide under another religion.

size of ghettos

• The biggest one was 1.3 square miles.
• But, it had 400,000 jews in it.
• It was 0.3 miles for 63,00 jews.

How was daily life in 'The ghettos'?

• Horrible, these neighborhoods were very small.
• Lots of them were ill and these places were very unsanitary.
• They were treated poorly and tortured.
• They were miserable causing jews to die and become very ill.

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• - Ciara Arena