Before World War II began, the Germans and Nazi soldiers surrounded buildings to house people before they left for the concentration camps. These places were only temporary but most lasted for years and still standing. Some of these neighborhoods were not so lucky.
These neighborhoods held people, and the Germans and Nazi soldiers treated these people’s religion as a race. These were Jewish neighborhoods, but they were not just Jewish neighborhoods, they were the ghettos. The Nazi’s and Germans contained the Jewish people until they were listed to go to a concentration camp and work and die a slow but painful death or instantly die from a gas chamber.
With the ghettos, the Germans and Nazi soldiers contained …show more content…
They only had very few meals to eat and did not received enough to eat. To divide the rations fairly, they used ration cards so they obtained a fair amount of food. Due to this low amount of food, they were starting to wither. The total amount of calories they received with these rations was about one hundred eighty four calories (Gutman 582). The starvation of the Jewish people was the Nazi’s plan to annialate them. The plan was to starve them until death while in the ghettos. To the Nazi soldiers, the ghettos was just an instrument of death to the Jewish people (Gutman 581). The only way for the Jewish people to survive in the ghetto was to …show more content…
Stealing goods was the only way to survive in the ghetto. Some of the Jewish people started taking goods and medicine to survive (Ayer 13). Since the Nazis made it hard for the Jewish people to survive with little food and little medicine, some Jewish people escaped and came back without the council of the ghetto knowing. The council members are Jewish people who received special treatment. They survived and received special treatment, and their family also receives the special treatment. The members have to make a list of Jewish people to send to concentration camps so that the members do not have to the camps. Even if some of the members knew they were stealing, they did not mind the Jewish people taking goods because they know they just want to survive. They knew that the only way for the Jewish people to survive is to steal goods (“Ghettos”). Even though the Jewish people had it rough in the ghettos, they managed to endure all the torments people said about them (Berg 90). People thought the Jewish people were going to be living in a place better than the Germans, but they were