Ghettos

Claire B.


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

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.
Lodz ghetto was the second largest; population was 672,000 people 1/3 of them were Jewish.
  • 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.
Established Jews and Roma in Germany occupied Poland.


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

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-Over crowding was very common
-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

  • 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


-The Warsaw ghetto was the biggest ghetto they attacked
-about 450,000 Jews were crowded in an area of 1.3 square miles which was the Warsaw Ghettohe05n17o.orig_230x170.jpg
-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