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Jewish Holocaust Ghettos. Why the Ghettos were started.
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Jewish Holocaust Ghettos
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.
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.
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.
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.
Different types of Ghettos • Closed Ghettos- Closed of by walls and they were the worst. • Destruction Ghettos- They were tightly sealed off and existed between 2 and 6 weeks before the Germans shot the Jews or concentrated them. • Open Ghettos- they had no walls or fences, but had restrictions on entering or leaving
Ghetto Conditions The Ghettos conditions were the worst that a Person could experience. There wasn’t any sanitation. Pestilence would sweep through. If a person was not fit for work, then he did not get food tickets. That meant death by starvation. Over 75,000 people died of disease and starvation. Water and Food was almost scarce.
Ghetto Conditions (Continued) Bathing is almost non-existence, and bathroom areas are filled to capacity with waste. Gutters and ditches are filled with human waste and bodies, and houses and bunks are filled to capacity.
House Conditions Lining the floors is odorous human waste. The bunks inside the huts are filled to capacity, and some are more. No one could lie straight down and some living shared bunks with the dead. Some people on top bunks couldn't move, or were to weak to move, so they let their waste fall into the bunks below them. Hundreds of people to one thousand people were usually in one hut. Hut's were made for 100 people. Disease thrived in every corner. Lice and other diseases caused most of the deaths.
Medical Conditions Medical rations were in high supply, but a limited amount could only be given. There was no lice medicine, so lice thrived around almost all Jews. Food rations were very meager. Watery stew was the basic diet of many Jewish Ghetto Prisoners. Food distribution was a terrible system. Food distributors would hand out food, but there was no promise that everybody would get their share. The weak people who could not get their own share would not get any food.
