Topic > Essay on Ghettos - 899

The term “ghetto” derives from the Jewish quarter of Venice, created in 1516, when Venetian experts required that the city's entire Jewish population live in this area. Ghettos separated Jews from non-Jews and other Jewish communities. There were three types of ghettos: closed, open and destruction ghettos. My thought is that the ghettos of destruction are concentration or extermination camps. The ghetto was not a Nazi invention. Ghetto residents often engaged in so-called "illegal activities," such as smuggling food, medicine, and weapons through the ghetto walls, often without the knowledge of the Jewish council. Some Jewish councils and individual council members permitted or even encouraged it, because the assets were necessary to keep the Jews in the ghetto alive. In some ghettos, members of Jewish resistance movements organized armed uprisings that did not end well. In Hungary, ghettoization only began in the spring of 1944, after the Germans invaded the country and remained. The Germans deported most of Hungary's Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenu extermination camp. During the Holocaust, the ghettos represented a central stage in the process of Nazi control. Confining Jews to ghettos was not part of Hitler's plans. For centuries, Jews had faced persecution and were often forced to live in ghettos. The closed ghettos had many flaws, but they were useful for hiding Jews, the ghettos were extremely crowded and unsanitary. From the outside it was closed by walls or barbed wire fences, depending on the location and the surrounding environment. Of all three types of ghettos, the most popular were closed. Closed ghettos lead to hunger, unheated housing leads to harsh winter weather. The absence of authority leads to the explosion of... half of paper...... in the forced labor camps of Poniatowa, Trawniki and the concentration camps of Lublin/Majdanek. At least 7,000 Jews died fighting or hiding in the ghetto, while the SS and police sent the other 7,000 to the Treblinka extermination center. For months after the attack on the Warsaw Ghetto, individual Jews continued to hide among the remains and on some occasions attacked German police officers on patrol. When Soviet troops returned on January 17, 1945, they lit up a disappointed Warsaw. According to Polish data, only about 174,000 people remained in the city, less than 6% of the pre-war population. About 11,500 survivors were Jews. In conclusion, life in the ghetto was miserable, but on the other hand it was better than going to a concentration camp or even an extermination camp, people in the ghettos were probably relieved to live that long..