Essay On Ghetto

How did people in the ghettos live? The people in the ghetto, live in rundown neighborhoods. Ghettos were where jews were kept. Later on they were taken to concentration camps. This paper will talk about “What were they”, and “How did people in the ghettos live”. The purpose of this paper is to get the reader to understand that the ghettos were not treated fairly. This is important to me because not all races are still treated equally today.
First I am going to talk about what were they? When the nazis began moving hundreds of thousands of jews into very small over crowded areas of cities called ghettos. They were not allowed to leave. Many died of starvation and disease (The holocaust). Ghetto now refers to large settlements of blacks in
Most of the areas does not have running water of a sewer system. Deportations from lodz ghetto to the chelmno killing center begin(Children of the holocaust). German police will carry out round ups in the ghetto. In the spring of 1944 the nazis decide to destroy the lodz ghetto.
By then the lodz is the last remaining ghetto in poland with a population of about 75,000 jews. On june 23rd 1944 the germans resume deportations from lodz(Children of the holocaust). About 7,000 jews were deported to chelmno and killed. The deportations continue in july and august most of the remaining ghetto population is deported to the auschwitz birkenau extermination camp. The lodz ghetto is eliminated. Contagious disease spread rapidly in such cramped unsanitary housing. People were always hungry. Germans deliberately tried to starve residents by allowing them to purchase small amount of bread potatoes and fat(Children of the holocaust). Some residents had some money or valuables they could trade for food smuggled into the ghetto others were forced to beg or steal to survive. During the long winters heating lever was scarce and many people lacked adequate