The Ghettos

Ghettos were designed and built to separate the Jews from the non-Jewish community by having different neighborhoods for each.

During World War II, the term "ghetto" was used to title the living quarter’s Jewish people were subjected to. These conditions were miserable, unhygienic, claustrophobic and completely robbed of privacy.

Residents within the ghetto walls were forced to wear badges or armbands for identification of Jewish blood.

In response to the restrictions set by the German soldiers, resistant efforts were attempted to smuggle contraband item such as food, medicine, weapons or intelligence across ghetto to ghetto.

As any type of gathering such as religious or social were deemed a ‘security threat’, the German authorities would incarcerate or kill any perceived participants. Schooling and any sort of education were also forbidden.

From the year 1939 the first ghetto was established in Poland in Piotrkow Trybunalski. From then an expansion of at least 1000 ghettos were situated over German occupied land and the Soviet Union.

During the Holocaust the ghettos were regarded as the appropriate measure to control the Jewish population whiles the Nazi Leadership at hand executed the Final Solution; the murder of all Jewish people across Europe.

As the Final Solution pressed forward from 1941, each of the ghettos were becoming destroyed by German parties. Destruction was being upheld by means of the ghetto resident’s murder and creation and placement into mass graves. If not shot right at scene, larger groups of Jews were transported by train to extermination camp for immediate death or put to labor in affiliated concentration camps.