Warsaw+Ghetto

The Ghetto is a part of a city, that is highly populated slum area, inhabited mostly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships. The ghetto has change over the year but in the begin it went to this definition Jews were pushed into the ghetto when world war two brakes out but not just Jewish people were pushed into the ghetto many others went into it to.The most popular known ghetto was the warsaw that was the most known ghetto during the world warII.

when world war two broke out most of the world was pushed in to the gheto warsaw became the captal of pland in 1596, warsaw was the bigest ghetto in Polland. Jews lived in Warsaw from the 15th century on. In the 19th century Warsaw’s Jewish population increased becoming one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe and by the 20th century the Warsaw ghetto became the second largest ghetto in the World, behind New York.Jews were to in every part of the city, but mostly in the Northern part, with many apartment houses and certain streets lived by Jews. In 1935 the city covered an area of 54 square miles with a population of 1.3 million people. The Warsaw ghetto is famous for two things. The first thing is that it was a home to more Jews than any other ghetto. The second thing is that it had a famous ghetto uprising that was an inspiration to many other Jews. Germans forced Jews into ghettos by telling them that they were going to be relocated to a better place. They also told the Jews to bring all their precious items. When the Jews got there, they found armed Germans soldiers waiting for them. The Germans collected all the Jews' valuables. After that, they put the Jews in box cars and shipped them to the ghetto.

Nazis put Jews in the ghettos to isolate the Jews from the “regular” society. A ghetto was a walled city within a city. These Jews only got 184 calories. That is one slice of bread with a teaspoon of butter.The Germans would place Jews in Warsaw and other small towns near Warsaw and put them in the ghetto. The Germans built the ghetto in Warsaw because a large amount of the Jewish population in Poland was living there. The ghetto was home to more than 400,000 Jews. The ghetto only had 27,000 one-room apartments for the Jews to live in. Jews would not go back into German territories; they built nine-foot high walls. Each brick had a piece of sharp glass in between them so Jews could not climb up the walls. Also, barbed wire was installed at the top of the wall.

A short video of the basic's of the warsaw ghetto during world war two.

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