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Ghettos

Ghettos. By: Alex Radomski And Mason Nixon. Definition.

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Ghettos

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  1. Ghettos By: Alex Radomski And Mason Nixon

  2. Definition • A section predominantly inhabited by Jewish people, or a section of a city. A thickly populated slum area inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic group or other minority group often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hard ships.

  3. How many people total • Ghettos could have as few as 40,000 people too more than 400,000 people.

  4. Space? • The Ghetto inhabitants lived in a area of about 1.3 square miles and an average of 7 people per room. Some places were 2 square meters per person.

  5. Food In a Ghetto Jewish people subsisted on 1,125 calories a day. If they weren't picked up by the Nazis they died of hunger.

  6. Change • As the war against the Jews progressed, the ghettos became transition areas, used as collection points for deportation to death camps and concentration camps

  7. How many Ghettos are there? • In total, the Nazis established 356 ghettos in Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary between 1939 and 1945.

  8. Small Ghettos • There was no uniformity to these ghettos. The ghettos in small towns were generally not sealed off, which was often a temporary measure used until the residents could be sent to bigger ghettos.

  9. Large Ghettos • Larger cities had closed ghettos, with brick or stone walls, wooden fences, and barbed wire defining the boundaries. Guards were placed strategically at gateways and other boundary openings. Jews were not allowed to leave the so-called "Jewish residential districts," under penalty of death.

  10. Life in a Ghetto • Ghetto life was wretched. The ghettos were filthy, with poor sanitation. Extreme overcrowding forced many people to share a room. Disease was rampant. Staying warm was difficult during bitter cold winters without adequate warm clothes and heating fuel. Food was in such short supply that many slowly starved to death.

  11. Credits • Sources of pictures • ghettosnhotspots.com • Ablogabouthistory.com • unendingmasquerade.blogspot.com • ccwebsiteclass.net • ushmm.org • www2.needham.k12.ma.us • ablogabouthistory.com • holocaust.com.au • ushmm.org • spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk • foxnews.com

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