Jewish Holocaust Ghettos

1. Jewish Holocaust Ghettos

2. Why the Ghettos were started The Holocaust Ghettos were started because Hitler needed a place for the Jews to be held before deportation to the death and concentration camps. Or just transition areas. The Ghettos were just another step in the annihilation of the Jews, rather than a method to just separate them from the rest of society.

3. Were the Ghettos we located The Nazis established 356 ghettos in Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary between 1939 and 1945. The 5 major ghettos were Warsaw.

4. Population of Ghettos • The smallest ghettos housed approximately 3,000 people. Warsaw, the largest ghetto, housed 400,000 people. The second largest, held about 160,000. Other major ghettos were established in the cities of Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minsk.

5. Other Information • Hitler incorporated the western part if Poland into Germany according the race doctrine. He intended that Poles were to become slaves of Germany and that 2 million Jews therein were to be concentrated in ghettos in Poland’s largest cities. This would simplify saying that Jews were natural carriers of diseases.

6. Different types of Ghettos • Closed Ghettos- • Destruction Ghettos- • Open Ghettos-

7. Ghetto Conditions