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The Holocaust - The Ghettos

Ghetto:
 * 1) A usually poor part of the city primarily inhabited by people of the same race, reliegion, or social background, often because of discrimination.
 * 2) An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages
 * 3) Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto.

Types of Ghettos: Open Ghettos, Closed Ghettos, and Destruction Ghettos. Largest Ghetto: The Warsaw Ghetto containted 400,000 Jews Other Ghettos: Lodz, Krakaw, Bialystok, Lvuv, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, and Minsk.

The Nazi's would force Jews to live in run down parts of cities with poor living conditions. Ghettos were used to separate the Jews from each other and the rest of the European population. Around 1,000 ghettos were established in Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union; the first created was located in Poland. Jews residing in a ghetto were forced to wear identification and ghetto police were appointed to enfoce this order, and did not hesitate to kill a Jew who disobeyed. To resist, the Jews would act with criminal behavior, such as stealing food. Some of this behavior was tolerated by the Jewish Councils becuase it was neccessary to keep the Jews alive. Schooling and roaming social groups were not permitted in the Ghettos, and the ringleaders of large groups would be killed. Ghettos only lasted a short period of time because the Germans didn't need to use them any longer due to the "Final Solution", which was a plan to kill all of the Jews. The Ghettos were destroyed, and the residents were either shot, or deported to a concentration or extermination camp. The Gettos were one of the most dehumanizing steps of the holocaust as one of the first steps to mass murder.

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