Ghettos


 * Ghettos

Claire B.**

once people are in ghettos they get transported to concentration or death camps.
 * 23% of ghettos covered by walls.
 * Not sanitized at all carried diseases.
 * 75,000 people died of disease and starvation in ghettos.

Lodz ghetto was the second largest; population was 672,000 people 1/3 of them were Jewish. Established Jews and Roma in Germany occupied Poland.
 * Litzmannstadt**
 * In the Lodz ghetto everyone ten years and older had to where armband to configure that they where Jewish.(bands where yellow)
 * Lodz 230,000 Jew were persecuted on September 27,1939.
 * Because Jews fled city upon creation there were 164,000 people at first.
 * Police surrounded perimeter of ghetto so no one escapes.
 * If any Jew caught outside of the ghetto were to be shot on the spot.
 * The establishment of the Lodz ghetto was December 10,1939.


 * Warsaw**
 * Capitol of Poland
 * First Mass was September 6 - 11, 1942; 35886 jews were deported; 2648 were shot on the spot; 60 committed suicide. 55000-60000 Jews remained alive in ghetto.
 * estimated population was around 1000 Jews when first opened.
 * Military commanders told German soldiers to light buildings in ghettos on fire.
 * May 8th, German soldiers through gas in ghettos to kill the Jews. Most escaped by underground sewers.
 * July 22,1942 Jewish police were to deliver 6000 Jews to train station Umschlagplate train station deported to east.
 * July 15,1942 mass deportion over next 52 days. 300000 people taken toe Treblinka extermination camps.

-Life in the ghettos was usually unbearable**
 * Keila S.

-Some residents had a little bit of money and valuable things to trade for food -others we forced to beg or steal to survive -tons of people died from illnesses,starvation,and coldness -a lot of individuals killed themselves to escape from the hopeless lives -many young people tried to continue the education by going to school classes that ere organized by adults -since classes were mostly held in secretly, children learned to hide books under clothing when necessary, so they don't get caught -ghettos were enclosed with barbwire,fences,and or walls -the ghettos served as round-up centers that made the life more convenient to kill larger numbers of Jews later on -ghettoization however was seen as a temporary situation and in many placed ghettos exsisted only for a short time -"We fear that only those capable of slave labor will live;the rest probably are sentenced to death" -Elkhanan Elkes -17,412 survived from being killed by the Germans -the Nazi's established more than over 400 ghettos to isolate Jews from the non-Jewish population and from neighboring Jewish communities -the Germans undug the graves and bur** **ned them -the medical system in a typical ghetto consisted a department of public health -fifteen thousand of our people were massacred in the ghettos -Here are the different ghettos that the Germans Attacked**
 * -Over crowding was very common
 * **Bedzin Ghetto**
 * **Bialystok Ghetto**
 * **Budapest Ghettos**
 * **Cluj Ghetto**
 * **Czestochowa Ghetto**
 * **Krakow Ghetto**
 * **Lachqa Ghetto**
 * **Lodz Ghetto**
 * **Lwow Ghetto**
 * **Marcinkance Ghetto**
 * **Minsk Mazowieck Ghetto**
 * **Rotrkow Ghetto**
 * **Rinsk Ghetto**
 * **Riga Ghetto**
 * **Sosnowiec Ghetto**
 * **Theresienstadt Ghetto**
 * **Warsaw Ghetto**

-about 450,000 Jews were crowded in an area of 1.3 square miles which was the Warsaw Ghetto -The Jews were ordered to wear matching armbands/badges that had yellow Star of David -in the ghettos however, there was illegal activities such as smuggling food or weapons -Jews joining youth movements,or attending cultural events -The Jews fought back against the Nazi's -The Nazi's used "Final Solution" to refer to their pain plan to kill the Jewish People**
 * -The Warsaw ghetto was the biggest ghetto they attacked