Judenrat

Holocaust Ghettos Ghetto - A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships (Dictionary.com). Ghettos were just one of the things that made the Holocaust miserable for Jews. They were very important to the Nazis during the Holocaust. They helped them in many ways, and the Nazis probably couldn’t have succeeded; well, partly succeeded; without them. Discussing how and why they were created, the different types of ghettos, the ghetto leaders, and even the life people lived in the ghetto, are all important topics to discuss about ghettos . Ghettos prepared the Jews within for deportation, but also killed many Jews during their residency in the ghetto. More than one hundred thousand Jews died of unhealthy sanitation, malnutrition, and murder during their stay in these wretched places. Why were Ghettos Created? Holocaust Ghettos could be considered the most important part in Hitler’s plan to obliterate Europe’s Jews (Ghettos). Ghettos were used as places to keep Jews while Hitler and his company planned their genocide. The Nazis brutally used deception and manipulation to control the ghettos, and it seemed to work for nearly 5 years. The Nazis didn’t invent the ghetto, however (The Ghettos of the Holocaust). Ghettos first originated back to Venice, Italy, where Jews were forced to live in the corner of the city,…

defeat of Germany on May 7th, 1945. By 1940 The Nazis established over 360 ghettos in Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary. All ghettos had absolutely horrible conditions. There was very few food and water, people started auctioning off anything that they owned, even their clothes for a small piece of bread. The streets of the ghettos looked like an absolute war zone, with starving skeleton-like people walking around awaiting death while dead bodies…

were obligated to work two-year terms in a forced-labor camp” (Crowe 167). Hoping that this would give the German 's cheep labor. In November 1939, Jewish assets were frozen. Jews could not get into their bank accounts and they were only allowed to keep $625 cash with them which “made it impossible for Jews to engage in economic activities” (Gutman 1158). Living conditions got worse when Jews were stripped of their property, homes, and businesses. Nazi 's took Jewish families belonging with out…

Life in the Ghettos Ghettos are an urban section of a city serving as compulsory residential quarter for Jews. Ghettos were generally surrounded by a wall shutting if off from the rest of the city. The Germans created a station in which hard labor, malnutrition, overcrowding, and substandard contributed to the death of a large number of Jews. For every ghetto, the German authorities appointed a Judenrat, which was usually composed of Jewish leaders acceptable to the community. Ghetto life was…

could to follow Hitler’s orders to be fallacious and torture the Jews. The Nazis went to all Jewish homes and gave them a few minutes to gather their belongings and leave to the ghettos. German guards were to look over the ghetto to make sure no one escaped. If someone were to escape, the Nazis orders were to shoot them right on the spot. The guards forced the prisoners to have an average of seven people living in one room. Hitler purposely put large numbers of Jews in one ghetto to make it…

In March 1942 the Sobibor death camp was built. Many Jews were killed in Sobibor while it was still in service. The escape was only a year later when a group was founded in the underground and a plan was set up. 300 escaped, but how many lived? The Sobibor death camp was one of the first and one of the best. When it began it was slightly lacking but it picked up. Located near the the Sobibor village/eastern part of the Lublin district in Poland, the second death camp to be constructed as…

other after curfew to discuss their plans for resisting. Stated by Vladka Meed, an active resistor that lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, “(...) I recall being in a house after the curfew (...) two small children to be outside in case German are coming” (“Vladka Meed Discusses”). They people look out for each other so their plans and discussions wouldn’t be heard by the Germans. Vladka helped smuggle weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto by becoming a courier. Another way they resisted was by strategizing in…

though they may have only a limited number of beds and only a modest amount of rooms. This meant that, partially due to a lack of medicine and cleanliness, if one person in the house fell sick, everybody else became infected as well. Fatal illnesses like the flu, typhus, and small pox overran the ghettos, infecting a large percentage of the people that lived there. “This, along with malnutrition, turned out to be the element that killed the vast majority of Jews living in these ghettos”…

Poland. German occupied polish territory had at least 1,000 ghettos alone (Holocaust encyclopedia). There were three different types of ghettos; closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos that were constructed in nearly all German occupied territories. The first ghetto in Poland held more than 400,000 people in an area of 1.3 square miles. The Nazi party forced the Jews in the ghetto to wear identifying arm bands. They also forced many into labour for the German Reich. They created…

Even though there are many cases in which people did hide Jews in their homes, more could have done so. On a larger scale, German people could have refused the houses and business that weren’t theirs. They could have refused the things given to them by the Third Reich that they witnessed slowly being taken away from Jewish members of the community through things like Nuremburg Laws or Kristallnacht. On the other hand, it would have been a momentous risk for the Jews with a small amount of power…